On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 12:32 -0800, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > I split my time between the latest Fedora and the latest CentOS these > days, and it would make dogfooding packaging changes for CentOS/EPEL > much easier if all the packager utilities are available. Right now, > fedpkg is, but fedora-review is not. > > Tracking my effort here: https://pagure.io/epel/issue/108 > > Apart from the usual package-not-available story (which I want to fix > as part of my work bringing up the EPEL Packagers SIG), my current > snag > is that python-tox-current-env uses %generate_buildrequires which > does > not work on CentOS 8: > > ERROR: Source RPM is not installable: > error: Missing rpmlib features for python-tox-current-env-0.0.5- > 1.el8.noarch: > error: rpmlib(DynamicBuildRequires) <= 4.15.0-1 > > CentOS 8 is still on RPM 4.14: > <mock-chroot> sh-4.4# rpm -q rpm > rpm-4.14.2-37.el8.x86_64 > > I'll put up a patch to hardcode dependencies for non-Fedora releases, > though that sorts of defeat the purpose of dynamic build > requirements. > Then again, this is only needed for EPEL8, since EPEL9 will have a > new > enough RPM. > Given that %generate_buildrequires is the selling point of pyproject- rpm-macros, I'm guessing a better way forward for EPEL8 would be to not require it on EPEL8 since there's no way it would work, since RH won't update RPM? https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pyproject-rpm-macros Thanks, -- Michel Alexandre Salim profile: https://keyoxide.org/michel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx chat via email: https://delta.chat/ GPG key: 5DCE 2E7E 9C3B 1CFF D335 C1D7 8B22 9D2F 7CCC 04F2
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