Fedora i386 rawhide rebuild in mock status 2007-08-25

[Michael E Brown]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 05:08:48PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> writes:
> > Of those expected to have worked...
> > ...
> > mysql-5.0.45-3.fc8 (build/make) tgl redhat com
> > postgresql-8.2.4-3.fc8 (build/make) tgl redhat com
> 
> AFAICT, these two are not actually having a build problem, they are
> failing self-tests because of name resolution breakage.  mysql is
> pretty explicit about it:
> 
> mysql-test-run: *** ERROR: can't find IP number for localhost
> make: *** [test-ns] Error 1
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.10114 (%build)
> 
> There's not enough info in the postgresql build log to be certain,
> but the failure I see there is consistent with the theory that it
> couldn't resolve an IP address for "localhost".
> 
> I don't mind if you're not running DNS on your build machine, but
> you should at least have a localhost entry in /etc/hosts.

There was a recently reported bug in mock where we were not setting up
the /etc/hosts in the chroot properly. I've checked in the fix to
upstream mock git, and will be making a release next week.
--
Michael