Bug 858103

Summary: SyntaxError using mock to build package from source rpms
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Dean T. Hu <dean.hu>
Component: mockAssignee: Clark Williams <williams>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: el5CC: mebrown, valtri, williams
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Description Dean T. Hu 2012-09-18 01:07:12 UTC
Description of problem:
Intermittent build failures with symptoms:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/mock", line 66, in ?
    import mockbuild.backend
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mockbuild/backend.py", line 702
    except Exception as e:
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mock-1.0.35-1.el5

How reproducible:
Using mock to build a package

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Can happen on any build
  
Actual results:
Build fails

Expected results:
Build succeeds

Additional info:
Never saw this error with mock-1.0.34-1.el5

Comment 1 Clark Williams 2013-03-14 21:27:51 UTC
Believe this is fixed in 1.0.37. Closing as CURRENTRELEASE