nss rebuild problem which I am unsure how to solve

[Adrian Reber]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 02:13:15PM +0100, Karsten Hopp wrote:
>  Am 02.01.2011 23:59, schrieb Adrian Reber:
> >This will probably be a bit confusing, but I will try my best to
> >describe at as clear as possible.
> >
> >Right now I am trying to rebuild all packages which are in the group
> >"build". The problem I have is with the nss-* packages.
> >
> >Our f13 version is 3.12.6-7 which requires nss-util = 3.12.6, and that
> >is already the bug. I cannot update to nss-*-3.12.9 (current rawhide)
> >because of the dependencies of the nss-* packages on each other as nss
> >requires the exact version of nss-util (3.12.6). This is a packaging bug
> >which was later fixed with 3.12.6. Unfortunately I cannot rebuild that
> >old version because the test suites includes a certificate which has
> >expired.
> >
> >So I cannot build 3.12.6-8 which would fix the wrong "Requires: nss-util
> >= 3.12.6" to "Requires: nss-util>= 3.12.6" (and everything would be
> >okay).
> >
> >During my rebuilds with mock I did not hit this bug because f12 contains a
> >newer nss with the correct "Requires:" line. So the easiest solution
> >would be if the ppc koji could also inherit from f12+updates (if that is
> >possible). The f12+updates is using 3.12.8 and our latest f13 version is
> >still at 3.12.6. The only other way I can imagine would be to build a nss
> >3.12.6 package with the updated certificate so that the test does not
> >fail, but that sounds even more complicated.
> >
> 
> I've built the latest nss (3.12.9-0.1.beta2.fc15) in dist-f15.
> Are there any other packages where I can help you ?

Cool, thanks! So, how did you do it? I see you were able to build a nss
version with tests disabled. How was that possible?

> I'll try to get the latest gcc, rpm and glibc packages compiled
> in the meantime.

I have not rebuilt glibc yet, because I am not sure a needed koji patch
has already been applied. Without that, big SRPMS cannot be built.

		Adrian