Monday 25th June 2007
Local Packages
Updated bittorrent to 5.0.8
Updated curl to 7.16.3
Updated perl-Net-DNS to 0.60
Updated ppp to update the bundled Fedora spec in the source package
Updated proftpd to add auditing modules to the PAM configuration where appropriate
Updated tidy to the same CVS snapshot from February that Fedora has
Whilst building these packages, I noticed a worrisome problem in the buildsystem: mock was occasionally failing to download a package needed as a build requirement for something, but this was not preventing it from attempting to build the package. I noticed because the missing build requirements caused the actual package build to fail, but that might not always happen, and a package built with reduced functionality might be the result instead.
I raised this on fedora-buildsys-list and was asked for an easy way to reproduce the problem, which I managed to find. It remains to be seen whether it's a mock or a yum problem. Something to watch out for when doing builds though.