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,

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