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=== Thursday 9th September 2009 ===

==== Local Packages ====

 * Updated `perl-Archive-Tar` to 1.54 (fixes problem with global error result)
 * Updated `perl-HTML-Tidy` (1.08 except for FC-2 and earlier releases, which have 1.06 due to UTF-8 issues) to discard some `Info:` output from recent versions of `libtidy` that clutters the results ([[CPAN:32944|CPAN RT #32944]])

Whilst doing a rebuild of `perl-Expect` for Fedora 12, it unexpectedly failed its test suite in my `mock` buildsystem.
In fact, the problem wasn't just limited to F-12 - builds for ''all'' targets failed the same way:
{{{
Executing(%check): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.XfvLUP
+ umask 022
+ cd /builddir/build/BUILD
+ cd Expect-1.21
+ unset DISPLAY
+ /usr/bin/make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" test.pl
IO::Tty::pty_allocate(nonfatal): grantpt(): No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
IO::Tty::open_slave(nonfatal): ptsname_r(): No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
IO::Tty::open_slave(nonfatal): open(/dev/pts/8): No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
pty_allocate(nonfatal): posix_openpt(): No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
IO::Tty::pty_allocate(nonfatal): grantpt(): No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
IO::Tty::open_slave(nonfatal): open(/dev/pts/8): No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
pty_allocate(nonfatal): getpt(): No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
pty_allocate(nonfatal): openpty(): No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
IO::Tty::pty_allocate(nonfatal): grantpt(): No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
IO::Tty::open_slave(nonfatal): open(/dev/pts/8): No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
pty_allocate(nonfatal): open(/dev/ptmx): No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
Cannot open a pty at test.pl line 34
1..42
Basic tests...
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.XfvLUP (%check)
}}}

This turned out to be due to a change in `mock` 0.9.17 to address [[RedHatBugzilla:510183|Bug #510183]] (mock mounts `/dev/pts` in chroot with wrong options)
but an additional change had also been made (incompletely), resulting in the breakage.
I found that commenting out the following two lines in `/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mock/backend.py` fixed the problem:
{{{
        if os.uname()[2] >= '2.6.29':
            mountopt += ',newinstance'
}}}

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