Re: Extras i386 rawhide rebuild in mock status 2006-05-29

[Michael Schwendt <fedora wir-sind-cool org>]

On Tue, 30 May 2006 11:53:58 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 May 2006 23:19:01 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > 
> >> extras Rawhide-in-Mock Build Results for i386 Mon May 29 23:00:43 CDT 2006
> >> Number failed to build: 176
> >> Number expected to fail due to ExclusiveArch or ExcludeArch: 1
> >> Leaving:  175
> >> (there may be some duplicates if rawhide has 2 versions of a package)
> >>
> >> Of those expected to have worked...
> >> Without a bug filed: 173
> >> ----------------------------------
> >> abe
> >> alacarte
> >> amaya
> >> anjuta-gdl
> >> balsa
> > 
> > -snip-
> > 
> > Note sure what the goal of this rebuild attempt is. Extras buildsys uses
> > mock for a long time. So every package in Extras has built successfully in
> > mock before. Most (if not all) of the rebuild failures you've caught here
> > are due to updates in Rawhide, such as compiler updates or API changes.
> > This report is misleading.
> 
> No, it's because he's building the packages with the reduced build 
> environment that closely matches the exceptions list in the packaging 
> guidelines rather than default mock configuration that pulls in lots of 
> extra packages. So these build failures are mostly due to missing 
> buildreqs of things like perl(XML::Parser), gettext, flex, etc.

That is not the impression I got after looking at probably two dozen
builds reports. Only a few were due to missing BR.

Is this modified version of mock ready and available in Extras?