mock build failing sometimes

[Paul Howarth]

Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Just started getting this myself. It was a self-inflicted problem. I 
>> originally had the following in /etc/mock/defaults.cfg:
>>
>> config_opts['macros'] = """
>> %%_topdir    %s/build
>> %%_rpmfilename    %%%%{NAME}-%%%%{VERSION}-%%%%{RELEASE}.%%%%{ARCH}.rpm
>> %%packager    Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
>> %%vendor    city-fan.org repo http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/
>> """ % config_opts['chroothome']
>>
>> I recently changed this to:
>>
>> config_opts['macros'] = config_opts['macros'] + """
>> %%packager    Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
>> %%vendor    city-fan.org repo http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/
>> """
>>
>> Which should of course have been:
>>
>> config_opts['macros'] = config_opts['macros'] + """
>> %packager    Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
>> %vendor        city-fan.org repo http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/
>> """
>>
>> (no need to escape % characters any more)
> Thanks for the idea, Paul, but I've tested with no additional macros at 
> all, and build failed :(
> 
>>
>> This only manifested itself as a problem that broke builds when a 
>> combination of two things happened:
>>
>> 1. My autocache file for devel was regenerated, resulting in broken 
>> /var/lib/mock/fedora-devel*/root/builddir/.rpmmacros files with too 
>> many % characters, and
>> 2. A version of rpmbuild appeared in devel that refused to build 
>> packages in the presence of the broken rpmmacros file.
>>
>> Builds for older releases still worked but didn't pick up the packager 
>> and vendor tags due to the macro file error.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> Unfortunately this does not help in my case.  I've erased the cache file 
> and then:
> [wolfy at wolfy64 ~]$ mock -r fedora-devel-i386 
> /home/wolfy/rpm/SRPMS/xorg-x11-avivo-1.0-2.fc7.src.rpm
> init
> clean
> prep
> This may take a while
> create cache
> setup
> error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> 
> Error installing srpm: xorg-x11-avivo-1.0-2.fc7.src.rpm
> ending
> done
> [wolfy at wolfy64 ~]$ cat 
> /var/lib/mock/fedora-development-i386/root/builddir/.rpmmacros
> 
> %_smp_mflags -j3
> 
> %_rpmlock_path  /var/lib/mock/fedora-development-i386/var/lib/rpm/__db.000

You're setting config_opts['macros'] to specify %_smp_mflags somewhere. 
This is not a default option in mock.

This results in the omission of the %_topdir macro definition that mock 
includes in config_opts['macros'] by default, and that's what's causing 
your build failure.

See if you can find a reference to _smp_mflags somewhere in /etc/mock/*

Paul.