Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> wrote on 07/19/2006 10:07:54 AM:

> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 18:49 -0400, Joe Todaro wrote:
> > DW> and on the server, which has _no_ architecture at all, you'd have
> > DW> in /etc/plague/server/targets:
> > DW>
> > DW> fedora-devel-core.cfg
> > DW> fedora-5-core.cfg
> > DW> fedora-4-core.cfg
> > DW> fedora-devel-extras.cfg
> > DW> fedora-5-extras.cfg
> > DW> fedora-4-extras.cfg
> > DW>
> > DW> and on the server, if you care about depsolving (ie if you have
> > the
> > DW> "depsolve_jobs = yes" set in /etc/plague/server/plague-server.cfg)
> > then
> > DW> you actually do need mock target configs for everything too,
> > DW> because the server will use those to depsolve.
> >
> > Absolutely, we do care about depsolving..
> >
> > So, when you say "everything", does that also include (for example)  
> > 'i686' now, too, regardless of the fact that i686 is still only a  
> > sub-architecture?  
>
> No; you only need mock and builder configs for base architectures like
> i386, x86-64, ppc, sparc, sparc64, ppc64, etc.
>
> > DW> Do you really _want_ this to
> > DW> build as an i686 package?  
> >
> > No, of course not - this is a noarch only package, and always
> > has been.  
> >
> > DW> If so, I think the "BuildArch: noarch" is
> > DW> wrong then.  Typically, if you want a package to build noarch, you
> > DW> specify "BuildArch: noarch" and it will then only build on
> > noarch.  What
> > DW> arch is this package supposed to be for, exactly?
> >
> > 'noarch' as is specified in the specfile.  
>
> Ok, can you apply the attached patch?  cd to /usr/share/plague/server
> and use 'patch -p0 < patchfile'.  Enqueue the WhoAmI SRPM and let me
> know what it prints out.  


Yes, I have applied the patch and re-enqueued the WhoAmI SRPM.
Below are the results.   Hope you find something - good luck..  
And, thanks a lot for all the help you've been providing me,
which is very much appreciated.  

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below from /var/log/plague-server.log
=====================================
Request to enqueue 'WhoAmI' tag '/afs/pok/projects/.../SRPMS/whoami/WhoAmI-4.00-9_rhel4.src.rpm' for target 'ao100' (user 'jstodaro@abc.com')
630 (WhoAmI): Starting tag '/afs/pok/projects/.../SRPMS/whoami/WhoAmI-4.00-9_rhel4.src.rpm' on target 'lnxaddons-100-install'
630 (WhoAmI): AH: ba ['noarch'], exclusive [], exclude []
630 (WhoAmI): AH: addl_arches []
630 (WhoAmI): AH: base_arches ['i386', 'i686']
630 (WhoAmI): archjobs: {'noarch': None}, pkg_arches: None, allowed: None
630 (WhoAmI): Requesting depsolve...
630 (WhoAmI): Starting depsolve for arches: ['i386', 'i686'].
630 (WhoAmI/i686): Depsolve Error: WARNING: bad yum config for arch i686.
Exception in thread PackageJob: 630/WhoAmI:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.3/threading.py", line 436, in __bootstrap
    self.run()
  File "/usr/share/plague/server/PackageJob.py", line 86, in run
    self._pkg_job.process()
  File "/usr/share/plague/server/PackageJob.py", line 725, in process
    if func():
  File "/usr/share/plague/server/PackageJob.py", line 593, in _stage_depsolve
    if self._arch_deps_solved(arch) == False:
  File "/usr/share/plague/server/PackageJob.py", line 546, in _arch_deps_solved
    if base:
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'base' referenced before assignment

Re-activating builder 'https://lnxbuild1.abc.com:8888'.
=====================================
above from /var/log/plague-server.log
=====================================

> I tried running a noarch package through this
> morning and it seemed to go through fine; plague decided that 'noarch'
> was the only arch it was going to build for, even with i686 in the
> optional_arches for that target.
>
> > JT> > ======================================
> > JT> > Excerpt from lnxaddons-100-install.cfg
> > JT> > ======================================
> > JT> >
> > JT> > -----------<snip>------------  
> > JT> > [Arches]
> > JT> > base_arches=i386
> > JT> > optional_arches=i686 noarch  
> > JT> >
> >
> > GW> Ok; I think this is the cause of the noarch problem.  Since
> > 'noarch' is
> > GW> a base architecture in itself, you don't need it in
> > optional_arches.  If
> > GW> you remove it, I think things will work as you expect.  
> >
> > Nope - no such luck; I have removed 'noarch' from 'optional_arches',  
> > re-tested, and am still seeing that same error..  
>
> noarch shouldn't be in optional_arches, but if it's not working
> correctly when you remove it there's some other issue.
>
> Dan
>
> [attachment "print-archhandling.patch" deleted by Joe
> Todaro/Poughkeepsie/IBM]