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=== Thursday 31st August 2006 ===

==== Mock/Squid Problem Resolved ====

As I don't want to maintain full local mirrors of the Fedora development repositories (i386 and x86_64),
I've configured my buildsystem to use offsite repositories via a `squid` cache. Unfortunately the `squid`
setup wasn't caching the packages. This turned out to be due to my selection of mirror:
{{{
$ HEAD "http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/alchemist-devel-1.0.36-1.2.2.i386.rpm"
200 OK
Cache-Control: no-store
Connection: close
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:22:26 GMT
Via: 1.1 www.mirrorservice.org
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "616686-23a03-fe262140"
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux)
Content-Length: 145923
Content-Type: application/x-redhat-package-manager
Last-Modified: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:04:13 GMT
Client-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:22:31 GMT
Client-Peer: 212.219.56.133:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
}}}
Switching to a more sane mirror resolved the problem.

==== Local Packages ====

Wrote a script to check for dependency closure in my repository, which identified a number of issues:
 * I removed `smbldap_tools` from the RHL9, FC1, and RHEL3 due to unsatisfied dependencies:
  * `perl(Unicode::MapUTF8)`
  * `perl(Net::LDAP::LDIF)`
  * `perl(Net::LDAP)`
 * I rebuilt `perl-Module-Compat` with the epoch included in the versioned `perl` dependency for RHL9 and RHEL3
 * I rebuilt `ud`, `pop3gwd`, and `hot-babe` on older distributions to avoid dependencies on recent `glibc` symbols
 * Built RHEL4.x86_64 versions of `perl-BerkeleyDB`, `perl-Convert-UUlib`, `perl-Digest-MD4`, `perl-MIME-XBase64`, `perl-Unicode-Map`, `perl-Unicode-Map8`, `perl-Unicode-String`, `perl-Unix-Syslog`, and `perl-version`, all of which I'd somehow missed building when initially populating the repository

I also began to populate a Fedora Core Development version of my local repository.

==== Fedora Extras ====

 * Updated `perl-Net-SSH-Perl` so as not to run the `03-packet` test, which is prone to hanging ([[http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=6101|CPAN RT#6101]])

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