Hi, >> How we can proceed? I think that first idea is good as it allows us to do >> builds without touching x86-64 tag before we are ready for merging. But I do >> not have koji experience so may be wrong. > > New tag is the way to go, we don't want to block x86_64. > +1 The status, we have a blocker with mergerepo / mergerepo_c [1] which are not merging package with a dist tag different on the source package and the binary. e.g: I had to leave the problem on the side during 6.8 cycle but we are resuming some work this week with Brian and hope to understand better the problem. -- Thomas [1]: $ repoquery --repofrompath=reponame,http://cbs.centos.org/kojifiles/repos/storage7-ceph-jewel-el7-build/latest/aarch64/ --repoid=reponame -q json-c return no result The mergerepo tasks (mergerepo_c because it is more verbose, same issue with mergerepo): https://cbs.centos.org/kojifiles/work/tasks/4276/94276/mergerepos.log """ 19:33:02: Reading metadata for json-c (0.11-4.el7.aarch64) 19:33:02: Package json-c has forbidden srpm json-c-0.11-4.el7.src.rpm """ (REf in github : https://github.com/rpm-software-management/createrepo_c/blob/master/src/mergerepo_c.c#L784) $ rpm -qpi http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/os/aarch64/Packages/json-c-0.11-4.el7.aarch64.rpm warning: http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/os/aarch64/Packages/json-c-0.11-4.el7.aarch64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 305d49d6: NOKEY Name : json-c Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.11 Vendor: CentOS Release : 4.el7 Build Date: Fri 24 Apr 2015 02:25:38 UTC Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: arm64.centos.lab Group : Development/Libraries Source RPM: json-c-0.11-4.el7.src.rpm Size : 151697 License: MIT Signature : RSA/SHA1, Wed 29 Jul 2015 13:30:29 UTC, Key ID 6c7cb6ef305d49d6 Packager : CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org> URL : https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki Summary : A JSON implementation in C Description : JSON-C implements a reference counting object model that allows you to easily construct JSON objects in C, output them as JSON formatted strings and parse JSON formatted strings back into the C representation of JSON objects. So it means that aarch64 buildroot is not complete and therefore the build fails if certain dependencies are not found. (which is teh case for ceph jewel)