buildsys misconfigured

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Nov 29 08:13:37 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 19:33 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "MS" == Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> writes:
> 
> MS> Interesting would be any theory, where the .fc7 (for the generated
> MS> src.rpm) can come from when nothing in the plague-client args
> MS> contains "fc7".
> 
> Forgive me if it's already been covered in this discussion, but
> doesn't the final package name actually come from whatever the
> buildsys-macros packages defines the %dist tag to be?  (Assuming, of
> course, that the package uses the %dist macro in its Release: tag.)
> 
> So it's possible that if the wrong buildsys-macros package got
> installed into the mock chroot somehow, the package could come out
> with the wrong name regardless of how plague-client was called or
> which CVS tag the buildsys checked out.
> 
> All it would take to get the wrong buildsys macro installed would be a
> typo in the mock config file.  But that should result in all packages
> for that distro version getting the wrong %dist tag, and this seems to
> be an isolated case.

Perhaps a misconfiguration on one, rarely-used builder?

Paul.




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