Bug 741869

Summary: add %ghc_arches for el6
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Component: epel-releaseAssignee: Dennis Gilmore <dennis>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: el6CC: dennis, mastahnke, shakthimaan
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Target Release: 6.3   
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Fixed In Version: epel-release-6-6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 1029736 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-05-07 22:09:01 UTC Type: ---
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epel-release.spec-macros.ghc-srpm.patch
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Description Jens Petersen 2011-09-28 09:09:06 UTC
Description of problem:
In Fedora we now have %ghc_arches defined in redhat-rpm-config.
I would like to be able to build current Fedora ghc packages also
on EPEL-6, it doesn't have %ghc_arches defined yet so I can't.

ghc_arches is just a list of the archs where ghc has
been bootstrapped (for Fedora).

I don't think redhat-rpm-config can be updated for el6
so I am wondering if it can be added here instead?

I am happy to produce a patch to do that.

Comment 1 Michael Stahnke 2011-12-28 08:24:52 UTC
If you supply a patch, I don't see why we couldn't add it.  I'll ask Dennis as well.

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2012-01-10 03:36:25 UTC
Created attachment 551750 [details]
epel-release.spec-macros.ghc-srpm.patch

A patch to epel-release.spec adding "/etc/rpm/macros.ghc-srpm".

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2012-01-10 03:38:09 UTC
Created attachment 551751 [details]
macros.ghc-srpm

The rpm macros from Fedora's latest redhat-rpm-config.

Comment 4 Dennis Gilmore 2012-01-10 18:36:50 UTC
doesnt matter if we add it or not. it will not be available to be used, we do not install epel-release in the el6 minimal buildroot or srpm creation buildroot. we could change that but it does mean a change. it belongs in redhat-rpm-config not as a hack in epel-release. please try to go the path of redhat-rpm-config first.

Comment 5 Jens Petersen 2012-01-11 13:10:50 UTC
Doh - good point!

Hmm that means I have to request it be added to RHEL,
which I imagine may well take a long time, oh dear hmmm...
Let me try anyway.

Comment 6 Jens Petersen 2012-01-11 13:13:10 UTC
I am happy to provide a patch to redhat-rpm-config for this.

Comment 13 Dennis Gilmore 2012-02-27 16:24:42 UTC
curious whats going on here. It got moved to epel-release and then back to redhat-rpm-config. the last Entry i can see is from Jens on 2012-01-11 no idea if there has been further discussion beyond that.

Comment 14 Jens Petersen 2012-02-29 03:48:46 UTC
Panu doesn't seem to think that redhat-rpm-config is
the right place for housing the macro for EPEL6
and suggested having an epel-rpm-config package say instead.

Perhaps using epel-release would also be ok for now?
I just want to be able to update ghc* for epel6... :)

Comment 15 Panu Matilainen 2012-02-29 08:14:52 UTC
I guess Dennis isn't seeing the (unnecessarily) private comments in between.
In any case, I too fail to see why this was reassigned to redhat-rpm-config as EPEL is free to change their packages / add new ones as they please, but I cannot do that.

Comment 16 Jens Petersen 2012-02-29 08:30:34 UTC
Back to comment 4 then.

Comment 17 Jens Petersen 2012-03-02 03:46:04 UTC
Personally I feel that epel-release is kind of a sensitive package
so in the long term it would be better to use say an epel-rpm-config
package to house the macros for current EPEL releases, also given
that epel-release is not currently needed in mock.

Anyway, Dennis suggested we go ahead with patching epel-release
and pulling that into the default koji buildroot so I will
update the patch to the latest macros.

Comment 18 Jens Petersen 2012-03-02 09:51:27 UTC
Created attachment 567022 [details]
macros.ghc-srpm

Updated macros.ghc-srpm to just list i686 and x86_64 arches,
since currently epel6 only has ghc built for them.

epel-release.spec-macros.ghc-srpm.patch should still be good.

Comment 19 Fedora Update System 2012-04-20 13:53:28 UTC
epel-release-6-6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/epel-release-6-6

Comment 20 Fedora Update System 2012-04-21 20:59:42 UTC
Package epel-release-6-6:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=epel-testing epel-release-6-6'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2012-5627/epel-release-6-6
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 21 Fedora Update System 2012-05-07 22:09:01 UTC
epel-release-6-6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.