On 12/3/20 14:06, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Thu, 3 Dec 2020, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
>> Apart from the usual package-not-available story (which I want to fix
>> as part of my work bringing up the EPEL Packagers SIG), my current
>> snag is that python-tox-current-env uses %generate_buildrequires which
>> does not work on CentOS 8:
>>
>> CentOS 8 is still on RPM 4.14:
>> <mock-chroot> sh-4.4# rpm -q rpm
>> rpm-4.14.2-37.el8.x86_64
>>
>> I'll put up a patch to hardcode dependencies for non-Fedora releases,
>> though that sorts of defeat the purpose of dynamic build
>> requirements.
>> Then again, this is only needed for EPEL8, since EPEL9 will have a
>> new enough RPM.
>>
> Given that %generate_buildrequires is the selling point of pyproject-
> rpm-macros, I'm guessing a better way forward for EPEL8 would be to not
> require it on EPEL8 since there's no way it would work, since RH won't
> update RPM?
>
>
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pyproject-rpm-macros
I've been playing around with a hacked version of pyproject-rpm-macros
which at least allows some basic functionality in EPEL8. Comments welcome.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pyproject-rpm-macros/pull-request/284
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