Re: Building rpms in mock

Zenon Panoussis writes:

>
>> This is not really a bug, Courier always required en_US.UTF-8 locale for  
>> "make check". They just stripped out all the locales from the default  
>> buildroot.
>
> I mean a bug in the EL8 and EL9 distros and their derivatives,
> not in courier. At some point last year dnf started throwing
> similar errors every time you run it. They split the glibc
> langpacks in one rpm per locale and what you get from a stock
> installation is not always what some software of that very same
> stock installation needs.

Well, sure, but this happens all the time. A base OS install will have much  
more stuff than the default mock image. Building an rpm on a base OS install  
works fine, but a mock buildroot fails because the default mock build image  
has a bunch of stuff missing.

And they're constantly striving to reduce the size of the default mock  
buildroot. This makes the package responsible for declaring their  
dependencies, even if they're included in the base OS image.

> But speaking of rpms, there's something else I was pondering
> yesterday. If courier doesn't find the courier user/group at
> build time, it will later have to run as user daemon. So in
> order to build it to run as user courier, you need to first
> create the user in the buildroot (hence --no-clean in my build
> command). Wouldn't this be a good candidate for a build argument,
> e.g. '--with-usergroup courier' or numerical '--with-uidgid 900'?

There are already configure options. The userid and the groupid are set when  
building the courier-authlib package, by using its –with-mailuser  
and –with-mailgroup options; although I haven't tested what happens if the  
specified user and group does not exist when building courier-authlib.

The courier package will pick up the configure options from courier-authlib.

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