This is messy. I'm seeing several EPEL packages (babeltrace, lttng-ust, others) now fail to build from source with a RHEL 7.3 buildroot.

Is there a suggested workaround with macros magic?  Or should I wait for this to be resolved and then resubmit a build to koji?

Looks like it was introduced via:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1057327

I've submitted an update and buildroot override to fix this for EPEL7 - 
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/epel-rpm-macros-7-11

Please test.

(In reply to Orion Poplawski from comment #9)
> I've submitted an update and buildroot override to fix this for EPEL7 - 
> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/epel-rpm-macros-7-11
> 
> Please test.

Unfortunately it does not work:

[ellert@localhost ~]$ rpm -q redhat-rpm-config epel-rpm-macros
redhat-rpm-config-9.1.0-72.el7.centos.noarch
epel-rpm-macros-7-11.noarch
[ellert@localhost ~]$ rpm -E %_pkgdocdir
%{_docdir}/%{name}

If I rename macros-zzz-epel-override to macros.zzz-epel-override it works though:

[ellert@localhost ~]$ su -
Lösenord: 
Senaste inloggning: fre  9 dec 2016 13.14.22 CET på pts/0
[root@localhost ~]# mv /etc/rpm/macros-zzz-epel-override /etc/rpm/macros.zzz-epel-override 
[root@localhost ~]# exit
utloggning
[ellert@localhost ~]$ rpm -E %_pkgdocdir
%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}

Thanks for catching that.  New update submitted.

Any update on this?  My koji build on EPEL7 is still failing and I'm unable to push out an update...

I've resubmitted a buildroot override for epel-rpm-macros-7-12.  Can you try now?

(In reply to Orion Poplawski from comment #13)
> I've resubmitted a buildroot override for epel-rpm-macros-7-12.  Can you try
> now?

Yes, it builds successfully now.  Thanks!

Fixed in redhat-rpm-config-9.1.0-75.el7.src.rpm

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:2161

This didn't make it into the 7.4 buildroots apparently.  But you will get the new redhat-rpm-config if you e.g. set up a development container/VM using the latest from the repos.

Hence, packages will really need to build both with and without this change.  I ended up with this workaround:

From ecdda81c9b915ecbdea9438a0fa7a92d8f5bef46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Walters <walters>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 20:45:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Tweak build to work both with and without BZ#1392354

I was trying to fix something else and ran into this.
---
 flatpak.spec | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/flatpak.spec b/flatpak.spec
index 6cb50cc..f83648c 100644
--- a/flatpak.spec
+++ b/flatpak.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Name:           flatpak
 Version:        0.8.7
-Release:        1%{?dist}
+Release:        2%{?dist}
 Summary:        Application deployment framework for desktop apps
 
 Group:          Development/Tools
@@ -142,7 +142,13 @@ sed -i s/ostree-1// %{name}.pc
 %install
 %make_install
 install root/lib/libostree-flatpak-1.so.1.0.0 %{buildroot}%{_libdir}
-install -pm 644 NEWS README.md %{buildroot}/%{_pkgdocdir}
+# Work around https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1392354
+install -d %{buildroot}/%{_pkgdocdir}
+if test -d %{buildroot}/%{_docdir}/%{name}; then
+    mv %{buildroot}/%{_docdir}/%{name}/* %{buildroot}/%{_pkgdocdir}
+    rmdir %{buildroot}/%{_docdir}/%{name}/
+fi
+install -t %{buildroot}/%{_pkgdocdir} -pm 644 NEWS README.md
 # The system repo is not installed by the flatpak build system.
 install -d %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/lib/flatpak
 install -d %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/flatpak/remotes.d
@@ -218,6 +224,9 @@ flatpak remote-list --system &> /dev/null || :
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Aug 01 2017 Colin Walters <walters> - 0.8.7-2
+- Tweak build to work both with and without BZ#1392354
+
 * Tue Jun 20 2017 Kalev Lember <klember> - 0.8.7-1
 - Update to 0.8.7
 - Resolves: #1391018
-- 
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