Pathname-based buildreqs not working?

[Michael E Brown]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:52:04AM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Jos Vos wrote:
> >On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:08:02AM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >
> >>Yesterday I noticed that mock/yum seem to be having trouble finding
> >>pathname-based buildreqs.
> >
> >I had this problem with RHEL5, mock 0.7.4 and yum 3.0.x, but not
> >with yum 3.2.x.  Is this maybe a yum problem?  Did you directly
> >query yum to search for these files as a test?
> 
> Looking at the code in mock, it appears to use this command:
> 
> yum --installroot=/var/lib/mock/fedora-devel-i386/root resolvedep 
> <list-of-buildreqs>

Can you look in the root.log for this resolvedep command and check out
what is going on?

There isnt anything specifically in mock to disallow this. It should
work, afaict.

Send a pastebin link to the root.log, if possible, or a URL to an SRPM
with this problem.
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Michael