On Mon, 18 May 2020, Miro Hrončok wrote:

On 18. 05. 20 18:23, Scott Talbert wrote:

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Any good workarounds for working with epel7 Python packages on Fedora? Mainly dealing with the fact that python3_pkgversion differs from Fedora to EPEL7.  Ie, when doing 'fedpkg mockbuild' the SRPM will be generated with the wrong python3_pkgversion.

I tried this, but it didn't seem to work: fedpkg --release epel7 srpm --define 'python3_pkgversion 36'

There is a RFE open for +- this workaround to actually work:

https://pagure.io/rpkg/issue/432

This other RFE should make that workaround not needed (and the description contains manual steps to create a valid SRPM to build in mock):

https://pagure.io/rpkg/issue/495

Here is a relevant bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1767576

I don't work with epel7 packages daily, but I do have this in my ~/.rpmmacros:

#python3_pkgversion 36 #python3_other_pkgversion 34

And I change it to:

%python3_pkgversion 36 %python3_other_pkgversion 34

When needed. It is tedious :(

Thanks for the tip on ~/.rpmmacros. That will be good enough for now I think. Just have to remember to undo it when I go back to Fedora.

Scott