osc build -M something does not work with --alternative-project

[bmwiedemann]

Steps To Reproduce:

osc co openSUSE:Factory/glib2-branding ; cd $_
osc -v -d build --noservice --alternative-project openSUSE:Factory --multibuild-package=openSUSE standard glib2-branding.spec

actual result:

makeurl: https://api.opensuse.org ['build', 'openSUSE:Factory', 'standard', 'x86_64', '_repository:openSUSE', '_buildinfo'] []
...
The package '_repository:openSUSE' does not exist - please rerun with '--local-package'

expected result:
should behave the same as without alternative-project and request

makeurl: https://api.opensuse.org ['build', 'openSUSE:Factory', 'standard', 'x86_64', 'glib2-branding:openSUSE', '_buildinfo'] []

[bmwiedemann]

The _repository:openSUSE is coming form https://github.com/openSUSE/osc/blob/master/osc/build.py#L614
with multibuild portion appended some lines later.

[marcus-h]

On 2018-02-06 01:27:17 -0800, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote: actual result: ``` makeurl: https://api.opensuse.org ['build', 'openSUSE:Factory', 'standard', 'x86_64', '_repository:openSUSE', '_buildinfo'] [] ... The package '_repository:openSUSE' does not exist - please rerun with '--local-package' ```

Hmm actually the actual result is the expected result (but probably not from a user's point of view) :)

expected result: should behave the same as without alternative-project and request ``` makeurl: https://api.opensuse.org ['build', 'openSUSE:Factory', 'standard', 'x86_64', 'glib2-branding:openSUSE', '_buildinfo'] [] ```

"Fixed" (or changed) in commit 9c4f0d5 ('Ignore "--alternative-project <prj>" if it is equal to the wc\'s project')

[bmwiedemann]

actually, I would like to be able to use --local-package and --alternative-project also with other project names, but that is still broken for multibuild packages - does that need changes on the server side?

[marcus-h]

On 2018-02-07 16:19:07 +0000, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote: actually, I would like to be able to use --local-package and --alternative-project also with other project names, but that is still broken for multibuild packages - does that need changes on the server side?

Ah ok that's what you were hinting at:) I just created a PR [1] for the corresponding server-side changes. [1] openSUSE/open-build-service#4461