Missing pbr dependency on Fedora and EL packaging

[dmsimard]

What component is this about ?

Packaging for ARA on Fedora and EL

What is happening ?

pbr is listed as a buildrequires but not as a requires in the packaging: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ara/blob/f32/f/ara.spec

This can lead to runtime exceptions on missing pbr if it has not been installed through other dependencies.

What should be happening ?

pbr is a dependency and should be required.

[dmsimard]

@arrfab ^ FYI, are you building from the epel8 branch ? I will take care of this while bumping the packaging for the new 1.4.1 release.

[arrfab]

Yes, I wanted to open a PR to add it, as myself I discovered that it was needed at runtime.

[dmsimard]

Pull requests for 1.4.1 and adding pbr:

• f32: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ara/pull-request/4
• f31: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ara/pull-request/5
• epel8: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ara/pull-request/6

Haven't done master yet, I think it's failing to build because of the requires on python3-ara which hasn't been built yet.
The intent is to have "aliases" for ara -> python3-ara and ara-server for python3-ara-server in order to be able to do dnf install ara ara-server but I probably screwed that up.

[dmsimard]

f32, f31 and epel8 PRs are merged and updates submitted to bodhi.

[arrfab]

Good, submitted a build that I'll tag to testing too for CentOS (https://cbs.centos.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1329140) and if that works, I'll tag to -release and it will be signed and pushed to mirrors

[arrfab]

Correctly triggering now the python3-pbr install, so for centos configmanagement, I'll tag it to -release :

yum update  --enablerepo=centos-ansible-29-testing
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Dependencies resolved.
=======================================================================================================================
 Package                  Architecture        Version                     Repository                              Size
=======================================================================================================================
Upgrading:
 ara                      noarch              1.4.1-1.el8                 centos-ansible-29-testing               22 k
 python3-ara              noarch              1.4.1-1.el8                 centos-ansible-29-testing              391 k
Installing dependencies:
 python3-pbr              noarch              5.4.3-2.el8                 centos-ansible-29                       90 k

[dmsimard]

@arrfab amazing! Thanks for taking care of this so quickly 🎉

I guess I'll close this issue now.