Hi,
today I have been preparing an update to perl-Math-Pari and came across
a very strange build failure whilst doing a local mock build on a Fedora
13 x86_64 host. My package built successfully on x86_64 but when I tried
to build for i386, the build failed during %setup but without any
diagnostics. The SRPM was installed but no attempt to install its build
requirements was made. The root.log showed an exit status of 0 for all
commands that had been run.
After much experimentation bisecting the changes I had made, I
discovered that a typo in the changelog entry was the culprit: I had set
the year to 2100 instead of 2010. So it would appear that somewhere in
the mock/yum/rpm stack there may be a year 2038 problem waiting to bite
us (though I suspect there may not be too many 32-bit builds happening
by then).
Seriously though, it would be nice to have better diagnostics for this
and perhaps an rpmlint check for changelog entries in the future?
Paul.
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