BuildRequires - flex and bison

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 00:52 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 05:00 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> > I've always wondered why FE doesn't ship these files as local files
> > inside of the mock rsp. as part of a "mock-fedora-config*.rpm" and
> > instead forces users to pull them from the net.
> 
> so that they can be changed. to make sure people are building with
> something current.
If packaging them into the mock-rpm, yum/apt will keep them current.

People with smaller bandwidth will appreciate this, because it will help
avoid them having to download the stuff each time anew once they build a
package.

Also, I am not sure if the PackageGuideLines allow packages downloading
documents from external sources. 

> > Also, I wonder, why FE5-mock/yum doesn't seem to process <grouplist>
> > tags recursively anymore, which renders FE5-mock more or less
> > nonfunctional ;)
> 
> read the buildsys-list, additionally russell harrison posted the
> explanation here earlier this week.

I guess, you mean this:
> To fix mock builds on a machine with yum 2.6+ find the line
> "config_opts['buildgroup'] = 'build'" in each of your /etc/mock/*.cfg
> files and change it to "config_opts['buildgroup'] = 'build
> build-minimal build-base'".

A very clear description of a work around on severe regression in
mock/yum. I think it now should be your task to fix the bugs in the
packages you maintain instead of pushing all users to work around the
bugs. TIA.

Ralf