Hi,

I figured out the problem. Mock is called by consolehelper. Consolehelper by default sanitizes the environment variables. You can tell consolehelper what environment variable to keep by editing /etc/security/console.apps/mock and adding the environment variable to KEEP_ENV_VARS.

$ cat /etc/security/console.apps/mock USER=root PROGRAM=/usr/sbin/mock SESSION=false FALLBACK=false KEEP_ENV_VARS=COLUMNS,SSH_AUTH_SOCK,BUILD_NUMBER

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Arun SAG sagarun@gmail.com wrote:

My build environment (jenkins) has an environment variable named 'BUILD_NUMBER', i want it to be available as a macro. To achieve this i have added something like this to my mock configuration file

config_opts['macros']['%build_number'] = os.getenv('BUILD_NUMBER') if os.getenv('BUILD_NUMBER') != None else time.strftime('%d%m%Y%I%M')

But, this os.getenv('BUILD_NUMBER') always returns 'None'. The environment variable which is available outside mock never gets exported to mock environment. My mock version is 1.2.7.

-- Arun S A G http://zer0c00l.in/