Invalid rpm/podman.spec file when building from source

[joshmcorreia]

Issue Description

The rpm/podman.spec file is not a valid spec file according to dnf builddep. I'm following the instructions at https://podman.io/docs/installation#building-from-source.

Steps to reproduce the issue

Steps to reproduce the issue:

# git clone https://github.com/containers/podman.git
# cd podman
# dnf -y builddep rpm/podman.spec --enablerepo=codeready-builder-for-rhel-$(rpm --eval %{?rhel})-$(uname -m)-rpms
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 1:43:08 ago on Mon Sep 16 11:52:10 2024.
RPM: error: %changelog entries must start with *
Failed to open: 'rpm/podman.spec', not a valid spec file: can't parse specfile

Error: Some packages could not be found.

Describe the results you received

Unable to build from source on RHEL8.

Describe the results you expected

I expect to be able to build from source on RHEL8.

podman info output

N/A - happens before even running podman

Podman in a container

No

Privileged Or Rootless

None

Upstream Latest Release

Yes

Additional environment details

# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
VERSION="8.8 (Ootpa)"
ID="rhel"
ID_LIKE="fedora"
VERSION_ID="8.8"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 (Ootpa)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos"
HOME_URL="https://www.redhat.com/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"

REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=8.8
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8.8"

Additional information

N/A

[rhatdan]

@lsm5 PTAL

[lsm5]

@joshmcorreia Current main branch will have trouble building on rhel8 because of lack of rpmautospec support on rhel8 (there may be other issues, but that's the issue as seen in your error log). You can get around that by changing the %changelog section to look like:

%changelog
* Mon May 01 2023 Foo Bar <foobar@example.com>
- Placeholder changelog for envs that are not autochangelog-ready

The doc you mentioned needs to be updated to get rid of rhel8 as rhel8 is no longer under active development. I'd recommend switching to rhel9 / centos stream 9 or higher or Fedora.

Closing...

[joshmcorreia]

The doc you mentioned needs to be updated to get rid of rhel8 as rhel8 is no longer under active development.

RHEL8 has maintenance support until 5/31/2029 which is still used in production by a ton of organizations. Does podman only support active development OSs?

[rhatdan]

RHEL8 is supported only for CVE Back ports at this point.