On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 19:58 -0400, Jeff Sheltren wrote: > On Apr 10, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > > Am Montag, den 10.04.2006, 14:57 +0100 schrieb Paul Howarth: > >> Christoph Wickert wrote: > >> [that he's having trouble with mock's macros..] > >> > >> mock uses "yum groupinstall build", which in FC5's yum does not > >> pull in > >> the buildsys-macros package. > >> > >> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-March/ > >> msg02015.html > > > > Ok, thanks for the pointer. Although I red this message before I > > wasn't > > aware that _this_ was my problem. > > > > Your workaround works fine here but does this mean I can no longer use > > any "%if "%fedora" >" statements in my specfiles? > > > > Chris > > It may be easier to do this: > > Edit your local /etc/mock/*.cfg files, and change the 'buildgroup' > setting to be: > config_opts['buildgroup'] = 'build build-base build-minimal' > > That way, mock will call yum as: 'yum groupinstall build build-base > build-minimal', and you'll get all the packages you'd expect, and it > saves you creating a local repo as Paul described. Ah, now that's a *much* better idea. Thanks Jeff! You can still use the conditional builds in your spec files because the mock/yum versions on the fedora Extras buildsystem don't have this problem (yet), and I would expect there to be a long-term fix for this before the buildsystem got upgraded. You could read this thread for more: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-buildsys-list/2006-March/msg00016.html Paul. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
