rpm/mock: can't upbuild FC10 targets on FC9 host

[yersinia]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Philip Prindeville <
philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:

> Seems to be an rpm versioning issue:
>
> [root at builder SRPMS]# mock -r fedora-10-x86_64 --rebuild
> perl-Net-Patricia-1.15_01-1.fc9.src.rpm
> INFO: mock.py version 0.9.14 starting...
> State Changed: init plugins
> State Changed: start
> INFO: Start(perl-Net-Patricia-1.15_01-1.fc9.src.rpm)
>  Config(fedora-10-x86_64)
> State Changed: lock buildroot
> State Changed: clean
> State Changed: init
> State Changed: lock buildroot
> Mock Version: 0.9.14
> INFO: Mock Version: 0.9.14
> INFO: enabled root cache
> State Changed: unpacking root cache
> INFO: enabled yum cache
> State Changed: cleaning yum metadata
> INFO: enabled ccache
> State Changed: running yum
> State Changed: setup
> ERROR: Exception(perl-Net-Patricia-1.15_01-1.fc9.src.rpm)
> Config(fedora-10-x86_64) 0 minutes 15 seconds
> INFO: Results and/or logs in: /var/lib/mock/fedora-10-x86_64/result
> ERROR: Command failed:
>  # /usr/bin/yum --installroot /var/lib/mock/fedora-10-x86_64/root/
>  resolvedep  ccache  'perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)'
> rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment version
> error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database
> environment version mismatch
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30974)
> error: cannot open Packages database in
> /var/lib/mock/fedora-10-x86_64/root/var/lib/rpm
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
>    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main
>    errcode = main(args)
>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 84, in main
>    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 184, in getOptionsConfig
>    enabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.enableplugins))
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 192, in
> _getConfig
>    self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 774, in
> readMainConfig
>    yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot,
> startupconf.distroverpkg)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 844, in
> _getsysver
>    idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
> TypeError: rpmdb open failed
>
> [root at builder SRPMS]#
>
>
>
> The host was originally an FC8 host, that was yum updated to FC9. I use
> it to build FC9 and FC10 packages via Mock.
>
> Unfortunately, it looks like it doesn't want to use the old RPM database
> from the previous FC8 install.
>
> I am pretty sure that it is because this rpm proposed patch was rejected
upstream.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464752.
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464752>
The maintainer has already expressed his opinion on this topic also on this
mailing list and is unnecessary to discuss further.

It seems however that without this patch, or something similar, can lead to
the situation reported in the last comments.

> How do I clobber all of this to that the database gets written afresh?
>
> Apparently, "mock -r fedora-10-x86_64 --clean" isn't adequate. Perhaps
> "mock --nuke" would be useful here following an version update to zap
> stale state?
>
> Or should I just uninstall and reinstall mock?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Philip
>
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