Re: Do we need Mock supported on EL7?

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On Saturday, July 17, 2021 3:18:02 PM CEST Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 at 17:59, Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > We touched this topic several times before in our team.  Perhaps we should move
> > on and do it...  it would simplify a development (the yum/dnf hacks,
> > legacy systemd-nspawn hacks, podman requirement for building Fedora, etc.).
> >
> > I created an issue [1], can you please vote there if you are concerned?  If you
> > have a good argument for keeping the support, please write here or there (or
> > both).
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/issues/755
> >
> 
> First off, what does this mean:
> 
> 1. you can't build EL7 packages anymore with mock? AKA we would need
> to stop building EPEL7

No.  E.g. Copr builders are on the latest Mock, on Fedora 34, and they build EL7
just fine.

> 2. you can't use "mock" on systems after the XYZ version?

Yes, Mock version XYZ will not be available on EL7. 

> Going from the graphs of growth, most of EL growth has been in EL7
> since last year. That said.. I expect that if there is a version which
> is 'known' to be the last working version of mock then people needing
> it can 'keep' that version on those systems as long as they need.

Exactly.
Pavel

> 
> > Thank you,
> > Pavel
> >
> >
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