Re: Pathname-based buildreqs not working?

[Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown dell com>]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:08:02AM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Yesterday I noticed that mock/yum seem to be having trouble finding
> pathname-based buildreqs.
> 
> For example, buildreqs of /usr/include/tcpd.h and /usr/include/pcap.h
> aren't getting found. I use these to maintain spec compatibility across
> various releases, where these files can be found in either tcp_wrappers
> or tcp_wrappers-devel, or libpcap or libpcap-devel packages
> respectively.
> 
> I've tried upgrading to mock 0.8.15 from CVS (F-8 branch) and it hasn't
> helped.
> 
> Is this intentional behaviour (not getting/reading the filelists
> metadata) for speed purposes?

Paul,
    This should be fixed in latest mock git repo. This is an important
fix and I'll be releasing it later this week (0.8.17/0.9.1). Thanks for
reporting this and for your responsiveness in debugging it. Thanks also
to the yum folks who helped debug as well.
--
Michael