[Gluster-devel] Removing glupy from release 5.7

[Deepshikha Khandelwal]

Misc, is EPEL got recently installed on the builders?

Can you please resolve the 'Why EPEL on builders?'. EPEL+python3 on
builders seems not a good option to have.


On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 6:37 PM Michael Scherer <mscherer at redhat.com> wrote:

> Le jeudi 20 juin 2019 à 08:38 -0400, Kaleb Keithley a écrit :
> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:39 AM Michael Scherer <mscherer at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Le jeudi 20 juin 2019 à 06:57 -0400, Kaleb Keithley a écrit :
> > > > AFAICT, working fine right up to when EPEL and python3 were
> > > > installed
> > > > on
> > > > the centos builders.  If it was my decision, I'd undo that
> > > > change.
> > >
> > > The biggest problem is that mock do pull python3.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > That's mock on Fedora — to run a build in a centos-i386 chroot.
> > Fedora
> > already has python3. I don't see how that can affect what's running
> > in the
> > mock chroot.
>
> I am not sure we are talking about the same thing, but mock, the rpm
> package from EPEL 7, do pull python 3:
>
> $ cat /etc/redhat-release;   rpm -q --requires mock |grep 'python(abi'
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo)
> python(abi) = 3.6
>
> So we do have python3 installed on the Centos 7 builders (and was after
> a upgrade), and we are not going to remove it, because we use mock for
> a lot of stuff.
>
> And again, if the configure script is detecting the wrong version of
> python, the fix is not to remove the version of python for the
> builders, the fix is to detect the right version of python, or at
> least, permit to people to bypass the detection.
>
> > Is the build inside mock also installing EPEL and python3 somehow?
> > Now? If so, why?
>
> No, I doubt but then, if we are using a chroot, the package installed
> on the builders shouldn't matter, since that's a chroot.
>
> So I am kinda being lost.
>
> > And maybe the solution for centos regressions is to run those in
> > mock, with a centos-x86_64 chroot. Without EPEL or python3.
>
> That would likely requires a big refactor of the setup, since we have
> to get the data out of specific place, etc. We would also need to
> reinstall the builders to set partitions in a different way, with a
> bigger / and/or give more space for /var/lib/mock.
>
> I do not see that happening fast, and if my hypothesis of a issue in
> configure is right, then fixing seems the faster way to avoid the
> issue.
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