Re: Mock: loss of login shell

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:14:05PM -0600, Steve Conklin wrote:

> Mock no longer uses a login shell for builds.
> 
> The way I discovered this is that the ipsec-tools package stopped
> building. The reason is that it has a BuildRequires for the krb5-devel
> package, from which it uses krb5-config.
> 
> krb5-config is installed in /usr/kerberos/bin/, and the user's path is
> provided by /etc/profile.d/krb5-devel.sh
> 
> No user shell, therefore no path, and configure fails to find krb5-config.

I think mock is wrong.  It's obvious that the devel packages assume
developers (like package builders, either human or not ;-)) run the
/etc/profile.d scripts.  The same holds for some JVM's, IIRC.

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