buildreq for "localhost works"

Lubomir Kundrak lkundrak at redhat.com
Wed Sep 26 10:04:27 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:29 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> With recent changes to the implicit buildreq set, my package broke in
> the
> mass-rebuild-in-mock tests.  It needs an environment in which
> "localhost"
> resolves properly.  i.e., the canonical dummy /etc/hosts or whatever.
> This used to be implicitly supplied, and apparently no longer is.
> I can't figure out off hand what buildrequire would supply this. 

Apart from the other reply to this post; I can't imagine why would a
build system need to be this much tied to the build host. I would call
it a bug in the build system and patch around it.

-- 
Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)




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