Broken fedora 17 buildroot

[Elio Maldonado]

On 02/06/2013 01:21 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:55:13 +0100, Johannes Lips wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was trying to build stuff for fedora 17 and it failed due to
>> dependency problems:
>> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/2017/4932017/root.log
>>
>> What's happening and why is this happenening in a stable release?
>>
>> Johannes
>>
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4932017
> It's very likely due to bad/untested buildroot overrides for the nss*
> packages: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/override/list
>
> nss-3.14.2-2.fc17 	Updating to nss-3.14.2 	emaldonado 	02/05/2013 	02/08/2013 	
> nss-softokn-3.14.2-3.fc17 	Required for updating to nss-3.14.2 	emaldonado 	02/05/2013 	02/08/2013 	
> nss-util-3.14.2-2.fc17 	Required for updating to nss-3.14.2 	emaldonado 	02/05/2013 	02/08/2013
>
> Cc to emaldonado.
>
The problem is that there are four packages, nspr, nss-util, 
nss-softokn, nss, and nspr expired sooner that the others as sometines 
nss takes me longer. we have two options: (1) expire all of them or (2) 
edit overrides to extend some so they end at the same time. Given that 
keeping them in buildroot-override more than needed is frowned upon I 
should opt for (1) if there aren't any objections. By the way, as soon 
as the builds make it to updates-testing they are removed from buildroot 
but we can't always count on good timing.

Elio