On Thursday, December 16, 2021 12:25:12 PM CST Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm glad I can announce that we have a new release of Mock.  See the full
> release notes [1].  The major change that happened is the removal of
> 'epel-8' config files, as a follow-up for [2] discussion (and of course on
> *devel lists, big thanks to everyone for the discussion).
> 
> Note that this is is the last v2 release being shipped to all supported
> Fedora/EPEL versions.  From now on, we'll move to v3 with development (in
> 'main' branch) and EPEL 7 stays on v2 (in 'mock-2' branch, bugfix only).
> 
> [1] https://rpm-software-management.github.io/mock/Release-Notes-2.16
> [2] https://pagure.io/epel/issue/133
> [Fedora 35]: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-a7d4aaa6fe
> [Fedora 34]: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-0947974f0a
> [EPEL 8]: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2021-2d0f959e00
> [EPEL 7]: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2021-82ccb8f2b7
> 
> Happy building!
> Pavel

I have tested this update and found a couple problems. Please see my comment on 
the Fedora 35 update page (linked above) or see below:

> Hi @praiskup et. al,
> 
> There are a couple problems:
> 
> - `fedpkg --release epel8 mockbuild ` does not work properly. It defaults to 
> rhel8, which does not work by default and results in a 403 error when 
> dnf/mock attempts to install packages. After running `ln -s 
> /etc/mock/alma+epel-8-x86
_64.cfg ~/.config/mock/epel-8-x86_64.cfg`, it breaks entirely:
> 
> ```
> $ fedpkg --release epel8 mockbuild --no-cleanup-after
> Not downloading already downloaded ansible-core-2.12.1.tar.gz
> 
> setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=1638921600
> Wrote: 
> /home/gotmax/Sync/git-repos/packaging/fedora_rpms/forks.repos/ansible.repos/ansible-core/ansible-core-2.12.1-2.el8.src.rpm
> 
> mockbuild.exception.ConfigError: Could not find included config file: 
> /tmp/epel-8-x86_64.v230b0w7mockconfig/templates/almalinux-8.tpl
> 
> ERROR: Error in configuration
> Could not execute mockbuild: Failed to execute command.
> ```
> 
> It is possible to override the buildroot with `--root alma+epel-8-x86_64`, 
> but that is cumbersome and shouldn't be necessary.
> 
> - Using `alma+epel-8-x86_64` works with `mock` itself and with `fedpkg` after 
> applying the aforementioned fix, but mock/dnf repeatedly prints out the 
> following error when installing packages:  `Invalid configuration value: 
> failoverm
ethod=priority in /var/lib/mock/alma+epel-8-x86_64/root/etc/dnf/dnf.conf; 
Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist`.
> 
> - Even if I wanted to use the `rhel+epel-8-*` configs, they don't work at 
> all, as `subscription-manager` is broken (rhbz#1995465) and it is impossible 
> to obtain an entitlement.
> 
> In my opinion, this update should not be pushed until these crucial issues 
> are fixed.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Maxwell


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