Highlights from 2020-11-13 release¶
Updated client packages are shipped in Fedora 33, Fedora 32, Fedora 31, EPEL 8, EPEL 7, and EPEL 6 Bodhi updates.
Warning: We moved both the builders and the infrastructure to Fedora 33 which
nowadays has much stricter crypto-policies. This could break some builds
(if the builds depend on some non-complying hostname in the wild) so we
temporarily reverted the policy settings to FEDORA32. Please communicate
with your hosting providers this situation so they start using up2date crypto,
and your build processes aren’t interrupted in the future.
Copr-cli Bash completion¶
To enable bash completion, you have to install the python3-argcomplete package, and execute something equivalent to:
$ register-python-argcomplete copr >> ~/.bashrc
$ register-python-argcomplete copr-cli >> ~/.bashrc
Per-build timeout implemented¶
The default build timeout is newly decreased from 30 hours to just 5, but users can still opt-in for a longer or shorter timeout, up to 30 hours. For example:
copr build <project> <srpm> --timeout 360
This would terminate the build after 6 minutes if it were still running.
EOL chroot repositories¶
The overall processes around the end-of-life chroots (e.g. fedora-19-* currently, and soon to be fedora-30-*) was revamped and enhanced. There’s a new page that shows all your EOL repositories. Please review that page periodically to ensure that we don’t garbage-collect content you still want to keep (and preferably expire the content sooner to save the storage). On top of that, we show a new warning message in the web-UI about upcoming chroot removals, and we still periodically send the warning e-mails about EOL chroots.
The EOL garbage collector was disabled in the last few weeks, and now it is enabled again – so we prolonged all the existing EOL chroots for the next 45 days. Please make sure you review them in that time period.
More fine-grained Mock bootstrap configuration (bootstrap on by default)¶
Newly you can enable or disable bootstrap chroot, or initialize it by a podman image. This can be set per project and per chroot – and can be overridden per build.
Since the configuration is now more granular, we finally turned the bootstrap feature ON by default for newly created projects.
The bootstrap feature is not marked as “experimental” anymore, as it has been stabilized in Mock for quite some time (and ON by default).
Build batches¶
We implemented a build batches feature so you can in advance define the order of your builds. This feature is also available in the web-UI, but it is more convenient from the command-line:
$ copr build <project> --no-wait <first.src.rpm>
Created builds: 101010
$ copr build <project> --no-wait <second.src.rpm> --after-build-id 101010
Created builds: 101020
$ copr build <project> --no-wait <third.src.rpm> --with-build-id 101020
Created builds: 101030
This will create two batches (first with one build 101010 and second with two builds 101020 and 101030), where second batch isn’t started till Copr finishes the first one. This way, you can build a tree of dependant build batches according to your project needs.
Simplified builds from DistGit¶
There’s a new option to build from existing DistGit instances in Copr (e.g., from Fedora or CentOS DistGit). To build the foo package from CentOS 8, one can do:
$ copr build-distgit <project> --name foo --distgit centos --commit c8
It’s even easier for a Fedora Rawhide package:
$ copr build-distgit <project> --name foo
because ‘fedora’ distgit is the default, and we automatically pick the default branch.
Source builds are shown in running, starting, pending, etc. tabs¶
Previously we used to show the numbers only for binary RPM builds. Even though the source builds were running and consuming resources – they weren’t shown in the “running” tab previously. This has been changed now; you can observe your builds in the web-UI much sooner.
Modularity logic is being slowly moved to modulemd-tools¶
Reproducing the modularity build tasks locally (which are normally done on copr-backend) is becoming more easy. We are moving the logic to the modulemd-tools project.
Copr DistGit proxy fixes¶
The dist-git was fixed so it correctly imports large source RPMs like
texlive on background, in parallel with other import tasks. So users should
observe more fluent import queue processing.
New copr-distgit-client subpackage¶
The new package copr-distgit-client (a subpackage of copr-rpmbuild) provides a small convenience script which is able to download sources from DistGit lookaside cache, for pre-configured dist-git instances (currently Fedora, CentOS and Copr). It is enough to just call copr-distgit-client script inside a cloned package directory.
This small helper is meant to be a generic alternative for scripts like fedpkg-minimal, centpkg-minimal, rhpkg-simple, etc. in Copr, but it may be useful elsewhere, too.
Project Forking¶
Forking (or in this case rather “merging”) a project into another – already existing – project has been fixed (rhbz 1851827).