| Summary: | latex fails to create iproute2 documentation files | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Petr Šabata <psabata> | ||||||
| Component: | texlive-texmf | Assignee: | Jindrich Novy <jnovy> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security> | ||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||||
| Version: | 6.2 | CC: | borgan, ddumas, dmach, ksrot, pknirsch, rvokal, than | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Regression | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Whiteboard: | |||||||||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: |
Prior to this update, LaTeX did not build documents if the source file was more than five years old. An error message appeared and requested manual confirmation which stopped the build process. With this update, the error message has been changed to a message stating that the source file is more than five years old. Now, the build process completes successfully.
|
Story Points: | --- | ||||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||||
| Last Closed: | 2011-12-06 17:03:47 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
| Bug Depends On: | |||||||||
| Bug Blocks: | 692867, 693878, 705128, 709652 | ||||||||
| Attachments: |
|
||||||||
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an exception in the current release, please ask your support representative. This seems to be quite serious. It feels like latex is currently unusable on RHEL6 because of the 5-year-old timebomb. Changing this error message to just a warning would help a lot and prevent this issue from happening in the future. See a possible patch: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531569#56 Yes, it is quite serious. Actually any latex-related build of documentation of any package is now affected due to the error which is present when building fmt files from sources older than 5 years. Without a fix on texlive side one needs to workaround this bug for every package which uses latex at build time which can prevent rebuilds and is generally annoying. Created attachment 515645 [details]
Patch that turns the error into a warning so that documentation build passes
I have the same problem with a blktrace build, it's stopping me from filing my fastrack errata. Thanks, -Eric Changing component to texlive-texmf which is needed to be patched.
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
New Contents:
Prior to this update, LaTeX did not build documents if the source file was more than five years old. An error message appeared and requested manual confirmation which stopped the build process. With this update, the error message has been changed to a message stating that the source file is more than five years old. Now, the build process completes successfully.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1677.html |
Created attachment 503425 [details] iproute-2.6.32-17 build log Description of problem: LaTeX fails to build iproute2 documentation. This is a new behavior in EL6.2 buildroot. More information can be found in the attached build.log. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2007-56.el6 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to rebuild iproute-2.6.32-16 for EL6.2 Actual results: Build fails on make -C doc. Expected results: Build finishes successfully.