On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 17:03 +0200, jan matejek wrote:

hello,

On 5.7.2017 12:31, Scott Bahling wrote:

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What was the outcome of this? Is there something we can do within the Backports projects to fix the issue? Currently the multi version build is blocking us from submitting packages that require the python3 packages, but we conflict with the python2 versions in SLE.

i wrote a proof-of-concept patch for python-rpm-macros that allows building only python3 versions of blacklisted packages from SLE, without modifying the packages in question. See it at [1] for the time being.

Cool! We could add this to the Backports projects. We currently have a bot that updates the Backports rpmlint blacklist as new packages are added to SLE 12. We could piggy back off that to update the blacklist in the python-rpm-macros package.

However, there is still a problem: there are conflicts with the src.rpm, because, for instance, python-six.src.rpm already exists in SLE. I don't have a very good idea what to do about this. Is it possible to somehow change name of the src.rpm package? If not, you can fork the package under a different name, but it's going to be a fork, so at that point you can modify the spec in any case. Alternately, could the multibuild magic somehow fix this?

Maybe we can adjust the checks in the Backports projects to ignore src packages. I need to discuss that idea with others to identify any risks of doing so. I gut feeling is that we can do it. -Scott

m.

[1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:matejcik:rpm-macros-build-test/...

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-Scott