On Tue, 2020-04-14 at 13:58 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 14. 04. 20 13:39, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > So, to make this more robust against problems like you described, > > we > > should decouple what's run in the build root from a specific minor > > version of Python and the rpm Python package (and remove the > > superfluous Koji dependency). This shouldn't be much work, the > > biggest > > piece is probably to make it get by without using the rpm Python > > package (for comparing EVRs and to expand macros), but a tiny > > ctypes > > wrapper around rpmlib should solve this for us. > > Or even running `rpmdev-vercmp` and `rpm --eval` with subprocess: I'd rather not pull in rpmdevtools -- which depends on Perl and a couple 3rd party Perl packages. ;) One thing I missed in my previous mail was that we already shell out to rpmspec ("rpm --specfile ...") to query the epoch/version of the spec file, but that should be okay, too -- it's part of rpm-build which we need for building the SRPM at that point anyway. Nils -- Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to Software Engineer purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Red Hat Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: D0C1 1576 CDA6 5B6E BBAE 95B2 7D53 7FCA E9F6 395D old: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx