[Yum] yum, %post errors, mock failures

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Jack Neely wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I'm running into the funness that documented here:
>
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433579
>
> and discussed on the CentOS list:
>
>    http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-April/074912.html
>
> In building a chroot, pam is installed before coreutils causing its
> %post script to fail, yum to report an error code to mock, and mock
> refusing to continue with the build.  In fact, my case exactly matches
> the CentOS thread just in RHEL 5.3.
>
> I hesitate to patch and push a custom pam package because of a
> backwards dependency loop.  Would anyone know how to jiggle yum or mock
> just enough to ignore or get the loop in the right order for my build
> machines?
>
> This is yum 3.2.19.

grab yum from f11 and rebuild it - or ask nicely geppetto on irc about 
another pkg.

-sv