5 thoughts on - Mock Config Error

• I assume you added the yum repo after a line that looks like this:

  config_opts[‘dnf.conf’] += “””

  And before a line that looks like this:

  “””

  —
  Jonathan Billings

• Hi Jonathan,

  That was what I was missing. Fixing that and changing the order of the template lines in epel-8-x86_64.cfg resolved the issue. Thanks for that!!

  Also, I am trying to add a dist tag to rpms that I build in mock. In the epel-7 configs I do something like the following:
  config_opts[‘macros’][‘%dist’] = ‘.el7.tnt’ to get a dist tag on the rpms. In epel/CentOS 8 this does not work.

  If I run “mock –debug-config epel-8-x86_64”
  I see ‘%dist’: ‘.el8.tnt’} in the output but the rpm name does not have the el8.tnt tag in the name.

  Below is what I actually get:
  (vgeppetto3 pts19) $ ll /var/lib/mock/epel-8-x86_64/result/CentOS-release-8.2-2.2004.0.1.el8.1.x86_64.rpm
  -rw-r–r–. 1 mock mock 20404 Aug 24 13:32 /var/lib/mock/epel-8-x86_64/result/CentOS-release-8.2-2.2004.0.1.el8.1.x86_64.rpm
  (vgeppetto3 pts19)

  I have the following in the spec file:
  Release: %{CentOS_rel}.0.1%{?dist}.1

  Does anyone know how to apply a dist tag in the epel-8 mock configs?

  Is mock documented anywhere besides the src code? I cannot find any documentation that explains what actually needs to be in a mock configuration file or in this case how to specify my own dist tag.

  Regards,

  —
  Tom me@tdiehl.org

• Hello,

  It seems that the OpenSUSE mock configs[1] use the same syntax. I wonder if you need to invoke mock in a specific way to not override the macro?

  1. https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/blob/master/mock-core-configs/etc/mock/opensuse-leap-15.2-x86_64.cfg

• config_opts[‘macros’][‘%dist’] = ‘.gf.el8’

  …works for me without any further changes:
  http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/el/8/gf/x86_64/

  /etc/mock/site-defaults.cfg documents all of the possible config settings, then there is:

  https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/wiki

  Not that I have been able to tell. Setting the dist macro has always just worked for me.

  Peter

• In looking at the CentOS-release.spec I found the following:
  %define dist .el%{dist_release_version}
  Apparently this overrides the dist tag set in mock. At least that explains why the dist tag macro was working for me in el7 but not el8. Commenting out that line in the spec file fixed the problem.

  Thanks for the help.

  Regards,