Bug 1303034

Doing the following change to the attached glibc.spec works around the problem:

iff --git a/glibc.spec b/glibc.spec
index 4b3f454..41705d5 100644
--- a/glibc.spec
+++ b/glibc.spec
@@ -746,8 +746,6 @@ xh \
 yi \
 yo \
 yue \
-zh \
-yu \
 %{nil}
 
 %define language_list_second \
@@ -763,6 +761,7 @@ function(i) print(rpm.expand("%lang_package "..i.."")) end)}\
 %{nil}
 
 %create_lang_packages %language_list
+%create_lang_packages %language_list_second
 
 %define require_langpacks()\
 %{lua:\
@@ -775,6 +774,7 @@ function(i) print(rpm.expand("Requires: %{name}-langpack-"..i.." = %{version}-%{
 Summary: Meta package to require all langpacks
 Group: System Environment/Base
 %require_langpacks %language_list
+%require_langpacks %language_list_second
 %description all-langpacks
 Meta package to require all langpacks

I.e. just making %language_list slightly shorter and putting
two of its entries in %language_list_second and then
using the macros which get the language list as the input twice
makes it work.

The macro expansion works correctly then.

The macro expansion seems to work correctly as long as that %language_list
macro contains not more than 178 languages. When adding more
languages, the macro expansion fails.

This is already fixed upstream:

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/61838b0fdacb71a881baac164043b8e40ddfbec5

Fixed in rawhide in rpm-4.13.0-0.rc1.23.fc24

(In reply to Ľuboš Kardoš from comment #3)
> Fixed in rawhide in rpm-4.13.0-0.rc1.23.fc24

This seems to fix it indeed.

Because this is fixed in rawhide and I expect you need this for modifying packages in rawhide and not for changing packages in f23, I am closing this bug as fixed rawhide. If you need this to be fixed also in f23, please reopen the bug.

We need it fixed for f24 because the glibc langpack splitup feature requires it.

We would like this fixed in f23 and f22 so that developers can work in those environments to build and manipulate f24 and rawhide spec files.

I asked Ľuboš about this bugfix in rpm-4.13.0-0.rc1.23.fc24 build and he confirmed that. So, this bug is fixed in F24+ builds.

(In reply to Parag Nemade from comment #7)
> I asked Ľuboš about this bugfix in rpm-4.13.0-0.rc1.23.fc24 build and he
> confirmed that. So, this bug is fixed in F24+ builds.

Agreed, I had some problems with the ppc and s390 koji builders and in those cases I think they are *behind* in the mass rebuilds and versions.

I can confirm that F24 is now building:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=13137477

The problem remains for f22 and f23 though, and our glibc developers are likely using one of those.

So fixing this in f22 and f23 would be great.

The patch fixing this is easy to apply in f23 but there are some problems with applying it in f22. I will look into this on Monday.

(In reply to Ľuboš Kardoš from comment #9)
> The patch fixing this is easy to apply in f23 but there are some problems
> with applying it in f22. I will look into this on Monday.

I personally believe that just F-23 is fine for this, at least the current stable is needed but maybe not the n-1 one if it's a lot of work there's likely better spots people can be spending their time esp given Carlos says "are likely using one of those." ... I'd get confirmation that F-22 is actually worth the effort.

rpm-4.13.0-0.rc1.12.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d360559a79

rpm-4.12.0.1-16.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-3b03252507

rpm-4.12.0.1-16.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-3b03252507

rpm-4.13.0-0.rc1.12.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d360559a79

rpm-4.13.0-0.rc1.12.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

rpm-4.12.0.1-16.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.