devrpm-el7 and devrpm-fedora smoke tests are failing

[Shwetha-Acharya]

devrpm-el7 and devrpm-fedora smoke tests are failing with the following error message:

15:30:41 rpmbuild --define '_topdir /home/jenkins/root/workspace/gh_devrpm-el7/extras/LinuxRPM/rpmbuild' -bs rpmbuild/SPECS/glusterfs.spec 15:30:42 Wrote: /home/jenkins/root/workspace/gh_devrpm-el7/extras/LinuxRPM/rpmbuild/SRPMS/glusterfs-2023.10.03-0.09.5959.el7.src.rpm 15:30:42 mv rpmbuild/SRPMS/* . 15:30:42 ERROR: Could not find required config file: /etc/mock/{build_flag}.cfg 15:30:42 ERROR: If you're trying to specify a path, include the .cfg extension, e.g. -r ./target.cfg

As these are the "Required" tests, merging of PRs are blocked and the release activity is affected.

@mscherer @rakshithakamath94

[mscherer]

@rakshithakamath94 looked at the issue, and we noticed that 1) the builder were reinstalled on the wrong version. Some change in ansible that triggered some variable priority change, and the automation dutifully executed.

Now, that was fixed, the problem seems to be on jenkins-update, as it doesn't replace {build_flag} in the script as before.

[mscherer]

I suspect it come from https://github.com/gluster/build-jobs/commit/891c0b70b385f25d3d2b293da2df7b3c2dae9ca7

[mscherer]

@rakshithakamath94 you remember why this was changed ? Is it ok if I revert the change partially ?

[rakshithakamath94]

Hi @mscherer ,

When I noticed that the job was failing I made some manual changes to see if I can fix them. You can revert the changes, sorry I forgot to revert them :D

[rakshithakamath94]

Actually when I saw the parameter {build_flag} not getting the value, I searched the job's definition to see if I can get it. I am glad that you fixed it.

[mscherer]

Mhh, but I fixed nothing, the job is still failling. Do you remember why the job use include-raw-escape ?

[rakshithakamath94]

I don't remember exactly. But it's introducing extra set of brackets now isn't it? As in, ${some_variable} is now getting created as ${{some_variable}} right

[mscherer]

Yup. I guess I can revert on that job, it can't break it more than now.

[mscherer]

So that change nothing. I suspect a change on jjb that trigger the problem, but maybe I didn't fix it right.

[mscherer]

Ok so I just forgot to merge the PR. I had to debug the whole build of jjb to figure out the issue.

[Shwetha-Acharya]

@mscherer is the issue fixed now? Please update when fixed, so that I can re trigger the smoke runs

[mscherer]

I think it sopuld work. Sorry, I didn't looked at my github notifications