Re: yum, %post errors, mock failures

James Antill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Seth Vidal <[email protected]> writes:

> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Jack Neely wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I'm running into the funness that documented here:
>>
>>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433579
>>
>> and discussed on the CentOS list:
>>
>>    http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-April/074912.html
>>
>> In building a chroot, pam is installed before coreutils causing its
>> %post script to fail, yum to report an error code to mock, and mock
>> refusing to continue with the build.  In fact, my case exactly matches
>> the CentOS thread just in RHEL 5.3.
>>
>> I hesitate to patch and push a custom pam package because of a
>> backwards dependency loop.  Would anyone know how to jiggle yum or mock
>> just enough to ignore or get the loop in the right order for my build
>> machines?
>>
>> This is yum 3.2.19.
>
> grab yum from f11 and rebuild it - or ask nicely geppetto on irc about
> another pkg.

 Latest 3.2.22 still fails, IIRC there were two fixes for post
scripts. One was in yum, to make certain errors actually fail the
transaction and/or produce real error codes, and another was in rpm to
make %post scripts not be in that category.
 There's probably no good fix here.

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James Antill -- [email protected]
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