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=== Monday 4th June 2007 ===

==== Fedora Project ====

 * Raised [[RedHatBugzilla:242480|Bug #242480]] regarding `python-crypto` failing to build on ppc64; my interest in this is that `bittorrent` requires `python-crypto` and hence had broken dependencies in the ppc64 release

==== Local Packages ====

I set up my buildsystem to create packages for Fedora 7, and to label Rawhide packages with the `fc8` tag.
I've tweaked my `buildsys-build` package to not require `buildsys-macros` for Fedora 7 onwards since the
required rpm macros are now included in `redhat-rpm-config`

My biggest concern was what to do with the merged Core and Extras repository.
For all previous releases, I used a loopback-mounted DVD ISO image as a local repository
for the base OS, and grabbed ''extras'' packages over the network via a local squid cache
(much as is described in FedoraProject:PackageMaintainers/MockTricks).

In order to build arbitrary packages for Fedora 7, I need the ''Everything'' repository (the full merged Core and Extras set)
in the `mock` configuration. However, I also want to speed things up by using packages from my local DVD image where
possible. The difficulty here is that the DVD image contains the same packages as the ''Everything'' repository, and there's
no documented way to get `yum` to pick packages from the DVD ISO first and only go to the network if the package isn't
found there.

It does appear though that `yum` currently searches through repositories in order of repository ID (I realise that this may
change without warning at any given moment...) so the following `mock` config is serving my needs for x86_64:
{{{

$ cat /etc/mock/fedora-7-x86_64.cfg 
#!/usr/bin/python -tt
import os

config_opts['root'] = 'fedora-7-x86_64'
config_opts['target_arch'] = 'x86_64'

config_opts['yum.conf'] = """
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=1
reposdir=/dev/null
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
retries=20
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=0
assumeyes=1
exclude=[ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefhijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]*.i*86 g[abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz]*.i?86 glib2.i?86 glib.i?86 *-devel.i?86

# repos

[zzz-everything]
name=zzz-everything
baseurl=http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/7/Everything/x86_64/os
proxy=http://localhost:3128/
priority=1
protect=1

[local-media]
name=local-media
baseurl=file:///srv/nb/distros/fc7/os/x86_64

[updates-released]
name=updates
baseurl=file:///srv/nb/distros/fc7/updates/x86_64

[groups]
name=groups
baseurl=file:///srv/nb/distros/fc7/groups

[city-fan.org]
name=city-fan.org repository for Fedora 7 (x86_64)
baseurl=file:///home/paul/cfo-repo/yum-repo/fc7/x86_64
enabled=0

"""
}}}
(the `priority` and `protect` lines were copied from a similar arrangement that CentOS uses, but doesn't seem to have any effect)

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