FC-7 mockbuild fails/koji build succeeds

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:42:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am facing what I presume to be caused by a divergence between the
>> default set of packages in a built-root in mock and koji:
>>
>>
>> koji --scratch building a package succeeds:
>>
>> # koji build --scratch --arch=i386 dist-fc7 Coin2-2.5.0-2.fc7.src.rpm
>>
>> c.f. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=181197
>>
>>
>> while rebuilding the identical src.rpm in a local mock on FC-7 fails:
>>
>> # mock  -r fedora-7-i386.cfg Coin2-2.5.0-2.fc7.src.rpm
>> ...
>> ./configure: line 37448: cmp: command not found
>> ...
>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.62964 (%build)
>> ...
>> RPM build errors:
>>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.62964 (%build)
>> ...
>>
>>
>> Seemingly, "cmp" is in FC-7's default packages in koji, but not in
>> FC-7's mock.
>
> 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.
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.

Next round of rpm updates updates for F7 (and FC6 possibly) is coming 
soonish, I can fix this and bunch of other implicit deps there. Missing 
deps are bugs alright, but I'm just not at all happy to see the build 
environment of already released Fedora versions changing like this.

 	- Panu -