On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 12:03 PM Stephen Smoogen <ssmoogen(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: I recommend not doing it in /etc, and instead doing it in ~/.config/mock, like so: ngompa@fedora ~> ls -hal ~/.config/mock/ total 16K drwxr-xr-x. 1 ngompa ngompa 140 Jun 16 2022 ./ drwxrwxr-x. 1 ngompa ngompa 3.7K Jun 3 12:14 ../ lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ngompa ngompa 33 Feb 12 2022 epel-8-aarch64.cfg -> /etc/mock/eldistro+epel-8-aarch64.cfg lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ngompa ngompa 32 Feb 12 2022 epel-8-x86_64.cfg -> /etc/mock/eldistro+epel-8-x86_64.cfg lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ngompa ngompa 33 Jun 16 2022 epel-9-aarch64.cfg -> /etc/mock/eldistro+epel-9-aarch64.cfg lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ngompa ngompa 32 Jun 16 2022 epel-9-x86_64.cfg -> /etc/mock/eldistro+epel-9-x86_64.cfg (I changed my choice to the non-existent "eldistro" intentionally, substitute with your preferred variant) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!

I both suggestions above and they did not work. It is as if fedpkg is checking for the file and not accepting a link: total 8 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 bradbell bradbell 41 Jun 3 18:13 epel-8-x86_64.cfg -> /etc/mock/contos-stream+epel-8-x86_64.cfg lrwxrwxrwx. 1 bradbell bradbell 41 Jun 3 18:13 epel-9-x86_64.cfg -> /etc/mock/contos-stream+epel-9-x86_64.cfg Not downloading already downloaded CppAD-20230000.0.tar.gz setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=1674950400 Wrote: /home/bradbell/fedora/cppad/cppad-20230000.0-1.el9.src.rpm ERROR: Could not find required config file: /etc/mock/epel-9-x86_64.cfg ERROR: There are those alternatives: ERROR: ERROR: [1] alma+epel-9-x86_64 ERROR: Use instead: mock -r alma+epel-9-x86_64 --resultdir /home/bradbell/fedora/cppad/results_cppad/20230000.0/1.el9 --rebuild /home/bradbell/fedora/cppad/cppad-20230000.0-1.el9.src.rpm ERROR: Builds against AlmaLinux 9 repositories, together with the official EPEL repositories. ERROR: Project page: https://almalinux.org/ ERROR: Enable permanently by: ERROR: $ ln -s /etc/mock/alma+epel-9-x86_64.cfg /home/bradbell/.config/mock/epel-9-x86_64.cfg ERROR: ERROR: [2] centos-stream+epel-9-x86_64 ERROR: Use instead: mock -r centos-stream+epel-9-x86_64 --resultdir /home/bradbell/fedora/cppad/results_cppad/20230000.0/1.el9 --rebuild /home/bradbell/fedora/cppad/cppad-20230000.0-1.el9.src.rpm ERROR: Builds against CentOS Stream 9 repositories (some packages may be a bit ahead the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9) together with the official EPEL repositories. ERROR: Project page: https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/ ERROR: Enable permanently by: ERROR: $ ln -s /etc/mock/centos-stream+epel-9-x86_64.cfg /home/bradbell/.config/mock/epel-9-x86_64.cfg ERROR: ERROR: [3] rhel+epel-9-x86_64 ERROR: Use instead: mock -r rhel+epel-9-x86_64 --resultdir /home/bradbell/fedora/cppad/results_cppad/20230000.0/1.el9 --rebuild /home/bradbell/fedora/cppad/cppad-20230000.0-1.el9.src.rpm ERROR: Builds against Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 repositories, together with the official EPEL repositories. ERROR: This mimics what is done in the official EPEL build system, but you need a Red Hat subscription: ERROR: https://rpm-software-management.github.io/mock/Feature-rhelchroots ERROR: Enable permanently by: ERROR: $ ln -s /etc/mock/rhel+epel-9-x86_64.cfg /home/bradbell/.config/mock/epel-9-x86_64.cfg ERROR: ERROR: [4] rocky+epel-9-x86_64 ERROR: Use instead: mock -r rocky+epel-9-x86_64 --resultdir /home/bradbell/fedora/cppad/results_cppad/20230000.0/1.el9 --rebuild /home/bradbell/fedora/cppad/cppad-20230000.0-1.el9.src.rpm ERROR: Builds against Rocky Linux 9 repositories, together with the official EPEL repositories. ERROR: Project page: https://rockylinux.org/ ERROR: Enable permanently by: ERROR: $ ln -s /etc/mock/rocky+epel-9-x86_64.cfg /home/bradbell/.config/mock/epel-9-x86_64.cfg ERROR: Mock config 'epel-9-x86_64' not found, see errors above. Could not execute mockbuild: Failed to execute command.

bradbell(a)seanet.com wrote: That's not what you want for epel though. It will build against centos-stream rather than rhel/alma/rocky, i.e. the stable EL. While it might appear to work, it will inevitably build packages which link against the wrong versions of libraries, pick up bogus dependencies, etc. You want to pick one of the *+epel-[89]-x86_64.cfg config files. I thought that previous fedpkg or mock releases printed a large banner which explained this a bit and linked to further details? I would have thought that was still in place, but perhaps not. -- Todd

Pavel Raiskup wrote: Will do. I checked on a clean system and got the banner. I noticed that it includes centos-stream. It has a small note that "some packages may be a bit ahead the Red Hat Enterprise Linux N" but I wonder if that's really useful to new mock users? I'm not sure that makes it clear how likely you are to have incompatible builds at any given point. IMO, that belongs with the epel-next configs, not epel. And there's already a link from epel-next-$VER-$ARCH to centos-stream+epel-next-$VER-$ARCH. Do you think it would it be reasonable to propose dropping centos-stream from the epel alternatives configuration? If not, what about making the warning a bit stronger? I'm not asking you or anyone else to do that work. I'm just wondering if it has already been debated and firmly settled before I spend time doing it. -- Todd