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=== Monday 19th May 2008 ===

==== Local Packages ====

Over the weekend I updated my build system to Fedora 9.
This was one of the most painless updates I can recall having made, and everything worked
from the buildsys perspective except for `mock` builds for Red Hat Linux 8 and Fedora 1 targets.

For Red Hat Linux 8, I got this somewhat unexpected error message:
{{{
ERROR: Command failed: 
 # /usr/bin/yum --installroot /var/lib/mock/pptps-redhat-8-i386/root/  install buildsys-build
glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.i386 from updates-released has depsolving problems
  --> glibc-common conflicts with glibc
glibc-2.2.93-5.i386 from core has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.2.93-5 is needed by package glibc-2.2.93-5.i386 (core)
glibc-debug-2.2.93-5.i686 from core has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: glibc-devel = 2.2.93-5 is needed by package glibc-debug-2.2.93-5.i686 (core)
Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-devel = 2.2.93-5 is needed by package glibc-debug-2.2.93-5.i686 (core)
Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.2.93-5 is needed by package glibc-2.2.93-5.i386 (core)
Error: glibc-common conflicts with glibc
}}}
By pure guesswork I tried adding to the `yum.conf` for the configuration:
{{{
exclude=glibc.i386
}}}
and that did the trick.

For Fedora 1, all builds failed at the point where the first command run in the chroot (`groupadd` as it happens),
though the `root.log` indicated that `glibc`'s post-install scriptlet was the first problem:
{{{
...
DEBUG util.py:250:  Transaction Summary
DEBUG util.py:250:  =============================================================================
DEBUG util.py:250:  Install     86 Package(s)
DEBUG util.py:250:  Update       0 Package(s)
DEBUG util.py:250:  Remove       0 Package(s)
DEBUG util.py:250:  Total download size: 77 M
DEBUG util.py:250:  error: %post(glibc-2.3.2-101.4.2.legacy.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 115
DEBUG util.py:250:  error: %post(bash-2.05b-34.i386) scriptlet failed, signal 11
DEBUG util.py:250:  error: %post(info-4.5-2.i386) scriptlet failed, signal 11
DEBUG util.py:250:  error: %post(sed-4.0.8-2.i386) scriptlet failed, signal 11
DEBUG util.py:250:  error: %post(grep-2.5.1-17.4.i386) scriptlet failed, signal 11
...
}}}
This was another manifestation of [[RedHatBugzilla:121351|Bug #121351]], which until now had only affected
32-bit host systems as far as `mock` was concerned. I suspect that the merge of the x86 and x86_64 trees in
recent kernels is the reason why this has just cropped up, and the workaround is similar to that for 32-bit
hosts. To fix it for the running kernel:
{{{
# sysctl -w abi.vsyscall32=0
}}}
For subsequent boots, add to `/etc/sysctl.conf`:
{{{
# FC1 glibc bug workaround (#121351)
abi.vsyscall32 = 0
}}}
 * Updated `dovecot-sieve` to 1.0.3
 * Updated `perl-Unix-Syslog` to 1.1
 * Updated `pptp` to do routing via `/sbin/ip` rather than `/bin/ip`; upstream is debian-based, and the location of the `ip` utility differs from Red Hat-based distributions
 * Updated `python-twisted` to 8.1.0
 * Updated `python-twisted-conch` to 8.1.0
 * Updated `python-twisted-core` to 8.1.0
 * Updated `python-twisted-lore` to 8.1.0
 * Updated `python-twisted-mail` to 8.1.0
 * Updated `python-twisted-names` to 8.1.0
 * Updated `python-twisted-news` to 8.1.0
 * Updated `python-twisted-web` to 8.1.0
 * Updated `python-twisted-words` to 8.1.0

==== Fedora Project ====

 * Updated `pptp` in Rawhide as per the local package
 * Raised [[RedHatBugzilla:447317|Bug #447317]] on `smolt`, which has problems with some mount table entries that have spaces in their pathnames, leading to tracebacks like this:
 {{{
# smoltGui 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/smoltGui", line 261, in <module>
    app = SmoltGui(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/bin/smoltGui", line 72, in __init__
    self.profile = smolt.Hardware()
  File "/usr/share/smolt/client/smolt.py", line 351, in __init__
    self.fss = get_file_systems()
  File "/usr/share/smolt/client/smolt.py", line 264, in get_file_systems
    file_systems = get_fslist()
  File "/usr/share/smolt/client/fs_util.py", line 100, in get_fslist
    return [FileSystem(mnt) for mnt in get_mtab()]
  File "/usr/share/smolt/client/fs_util.py", line 91, in get_mtab
    mtab_map = __cache_mtab__(mtab)
  File "/usr/share/smolt/client/fs_util.py", line 107, in __cache_mtab__
    mtab = [MntEntObj(line) for line in f.read().split('\n') if len(line) > 0]
  File "/usr/share/smolt/client/fs_util.py", line 41, in __init__
    self.mnt_freq, self.mnt_passno) = input.split()
ValueError: too many values to unpack
}}}

==== PPTP Client Project ====

 * Updated `pptp` as per the local package

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