awk missing from buildroot?

Wart wart at kobold.org
Wed Aug 22 15:37:34 UTC 2007


Paul Howarth wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:52:27 -0700
>>> Wart <wart at kobold.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> According to the FullExceptionList[1], awk is supposed to be included
>>>> in the minimal build root as part of 'gawk'.  But my yadex build
>>>> failed because awk wasn't found:
>>>>
>>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=116912&name=build.log
>>>>
>>>> Is this a temporary failure, or something more serious?
>>>>
>>>> --Wart
>>>> [1]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/FullExceptionList
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Argh.  We just need to pull the FullExceptionList.  It's variable and
>>> changes over time based on the depchains of those in the Exception list.
>>>
>>> Doesn't look like gawk is pulled in via deps from the Exception list
>>> anymore.
>>>   
>>
>> We have to have something to give to everyone, what will it be?
> 
> The full exception list is easily enough generated by a script for 
> anyone with mock setup to do development builds (I think that's how it 
> was generated in the first place, wasn't it?). How about removing the 
> existing list and replacing it with a separate page for each release, 
> automatically regenerated periodically (would older releases ever need 
> re-doing?)?

That's actually what made me think something was wrong.  I had done a 
mock build 5 minutes before submitting the build to koji.  The mock 
build didn't complain about any missing deps, but koji did.

--Wart




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