Create an artificial rpms-checks/ dist-git namespace (in staging).

roles/distgit/templates/genacls.pkgdb

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 # Takes no arguments!
 #
 
+import copy
 import grp
 import sys
 
@@ -69,6 +70,14 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     #print '    RW  private-     = @all'
     # dont' enable the above until we prevent building for real from private-
 
+{% if env == 'staging' %}
+    # XXX - Insert an artificial namespace into the set of namespaces returned
+    # by pkgdb.  We want to create a mirror of rpms/PKG in rpms-checks/PKG
+    # This hack occurs in two places.  Here, and in the branch-creation script.
+    # https://github.com/fedora-infra/pkgdb2/issues/329#issuecomment-207050233
+    data['rpms-checks'] = copy.copy(data['rpms'])
+{% endif %}
+
     # Get a list of all the packages
     for key in data:
         if key == 'title':

roles/distgit/templates/pkgdb_sync_git_branches.py

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Here are the different steps of this script:
 
 """
 
+import copy
 import itertools
 import multiprocessing.pool
 import os
@@ -249,6 +250,14 @@ def main():
 
     pkgdb_info = pkgdb_pkg_branch()
 
+{% if env == 'staging' %}
+    # XXX - Insert an artificial namespace into the set of namespaces returned
+    # by pkgdb.  We want to create a mirror of rpms/PKG in rpms-checks/PKG
+    # This hack occurs in two places.  Here, and in genacls.pkgdb.
+    # https://github.com/fedora-infra/pkgdb2/issues/329#issuecomment-207050233
+    pkgdb_info['rpms-checks'] = copy.copy(pkgdb_info['rpms'])
+{% endif %}
+
     for ns in pkgdb_info:
         namespace = ns
         if ns == 'packageAcls':