groupreq in comps files

[Michael Fleming]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 19:07 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Perhaps I'm doing something stupid here; let me know.

No, I can reproduce this (and incidentally thanks for proving that I am
not alone and insane. ;-))

> I'm trying to use mock in FC5, targetting FC4. It doesn't appear to be 
> installing the buildsys-macros package, hence the dist tag gets omitted 
> from the built packages.

I see exactly the same behaviour when rebuilding my local repo - FC5
x86_64, fresh install (attempted to go FC4/i386 -> FC5/x86_64, *bad*
idea.. ;-))

<snip>

> If I add buildsys-macros to the "build" group itself, the package is 
> installed and all is well.
> 
> All references to "groupreq" seem to have disappeared from comps.py in 
> FC5's yum...

Same here - is there something we can hack into yum (plugin / small
patch / whatever's appropriate) or would editing the buildroots.xml as
Paul has be the best workaround?

> Paul.

Michael.

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