On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:47:01 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:09 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >>>> It's the same old "diffutils is missing" problem that has been > >>>> found recently. Normally, "rpm-build" used to require > >>>> "diffutils", because it uses diff in scripts like check-files. > >>>> But the RPM update for F7 and FC6 has dropped the diffutils > >>>> "Requires" (the %changelog does not mention that). The mock > >>>> buildsys build-group pkg needs an update. > >>> > >>> No it wasn't dropped from rpm-build, it never was there to begin > >>> with. > > If rpm doesn't use these tools itself, then this would be, OK, > > otherwise this would qualify as a bug. > > > >>> diffutils has always been one of the implicit requirements (for no > >>> good reason IMO but that's another story) and has only been added > >>> recently to rawhide rpm. > > Does rpm use it? > > Yes. As Michael said above, diff is used in the check-files script > for one. So it needs to require diffutils. > > The problem is that this could have been coordinated better. The > buildsys package for F-7 shouldn't have been updated until after an > updated rpm package with fixed BRs was pushed. > > Should a ticket get filed with infrastructure regarding this? Or has > one already been filed? > What coordination do you refer to? Look at this: The "diffutils" pkg has been on the "Exceptions" list for a very long time. Wiki tracks it back to 2005, which is even before FESCo carved those guidelines into stone: Revision 22 as of 2005-04-23 22:25:17 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines?action=recall&rev=22#head-4cadce5e79d38a63cad3941de1dadc9d25d67d30 It *still* is on that list. Why is it missing in buildroot configs nowadays? I do understand that some people have killed the very important _expanded_ list of BR exceptions without much thought. But diffutils is on the short (!) list of exceptions _explicitly_. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
