[R-sig-Fedora] R 4.0.0 rebuild status

[Iñaki Ucar]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 12:09, José Abílio Matos <jamatos using fc.up.pt> wrote:
>
> On Friday, 26 June 2020 10.47.13 WEST Iñaki Ucar wrote:
> > I used bcond locally and wrongly assumed that fedpkg build would
> > support --with BCOND and --without BCOND. Instead, the way to activate
> > it is to change to "%bcond_with check" and then revert to
> > "%bcond_without check". The only difference with bootstrap is that
> > "bootstrap" is recognized and a suffix ~bootstrap can be added
> > automatically to the resulting build. So the question is whether we
> > want that suffix or not.
>
> AFAIU the issue is that the bootstrap scheme does not requires to bump the
> release because with the suffix (~) is considered lower while changing from
> "%bcond_with check" to "%bcond_without check" requires to bump the release.
>
> The issue is that koji does not allow 2 builds with the same nvr.
>
> Since we should ensure the upgrade path that also requires to bump the release
> number in rawhide before applying it on f32 (in this particular case).

Then probably sticking to bootstrap is the best option. We should
propose a change of the template SPEC in the guidelines to reflect
that all packages should enclose their suggests and %check into a
%{without boostrap} block, with a "%bcond_with bootstrap" defined on
top.

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Iñaki Úcar