Bug 2403286

Summary:	fedora-packager should pull in epel-rpm-macros
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Component:	fedora-packager	Assignee:	EPEL Packagers SIG <epel-packagers-sig>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	epel10	CC:	carl, davide, epel-packagers-sig, infra-sig, kevin, mboddu, rhbugs, tdawson
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Description Jens Petersen 2025-10-11 14:48:27 UTC

Description of problem:
Nothing seems to pull in epel-rpm-macros which are needed
for building epel packages including those using rpmautospec.

Additional info:
Though arguably it would also be enough for epel fedpkg to require it.

(Both fedpkg and fedora-packager require redhat-rpm-macros.)

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2025-10-22 21:09:26 UTC

I suppose we could do this in epel branches... 

Adding carl and troy here for input. ;)

Comment 2 Carl George 🤠 2025-10-23 02:50:44 UTC

epel-rpm-macros is already pulled into mock chroots with the templates in mock-core-configs.

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/blob/main/mock-core-configs/etc/mock/templates/epel-8.tpl#L1
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/blob/main/mock-core-configs/etc/mock/templates/epel-9.tpl#L1
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/blob/main/mock-core-configs/etc/mock/templates/epel-10.tpl#L1
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/blob/main/mock-core-configs/etc/mock/templates/epel-z-10.tpl#L1

What would be the purpose of installing it on the host where fedora-packager/fedpkg is installed?

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2025-10-23 04:36:42 UTC

(In reply to Carl George 🤠 from comment #2)
> What would be the purpose of installing it on the host where
> fedora-packager/fedpkg is installed?

So one can build fedora packages outside mock?

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2025-10-23 10:18:33 UTC

I am also totally with moving this to fedpkg, if that makes more sense: probably does everything being equal.