[Yum] yum, %post errors, mock failures

James Antill james-yum at and.org
Fri May 1 04:25:00 UTC 2009


Jack Neely <jjneely at ncsu.edu> writes:

> Don't you love build system failures?

 No :)

> What would be the correct way to fix the pam package?  I've seen a trick
> or two to jiggle it in front of coreutils by adding a file based
> dep...but that's just asking for this to come up again.  Other comments
> I've seen are to ||: some of the %post bits.

 I think you want to use:

 Requires(pre): coreutils

...in pam, but there's also the old PreReq hack. On the other side,
you could use an older yum to do the builds ... or hack the newer one
to ignore (some, all) errors.

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org


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