bison, flex have broken deps in rawhide

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 14:41:54 UTC 2013


On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 09:32:24 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 09:59:36 -0400,
>    Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
> >DEBUG util.py:264:  Error: Package: bison-2.7-1.fc20.x86_64 (build)
> >DEBUG util.py:264:             Requires: m4 >= 1.4
> >DEBUG util.py:264:  Error: Package: flex-2.5.37-1.fc20.x86_64 (build)
> >DEBUG util.py:264:             Requires: m4
> >DEBUG util.py:264:   You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
> >DEBUG util.py:264:   You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> >DEBUG util.py:354:  Child return code was: 1
> >
> >Somebody please fix?
> 
> Note that this is needed to rebuild postgresql to fix an important security 
> issue for which information how to exploit it are now public. It would be 
> really nice to have this fixed today even if that involves untagging the 
> m4 build from this morning (assuming that would fix the issue) in order 
> to get postgresql 9.2.4 built before doing a real fix.

If "Requires: m4" for buildroot creation fails, this could only mean that
the package is not included anymore or obsoleted by accident somewhere else.
Today's build of m4 satisfies the >= 1.4 requirement, too, btw. Odd that
m4 would be missing completely.

Thu Apr  4 15:02:52 2013 m4-1.4.16-8.fc20 tagged into f20 by vcrhonek [still active]

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