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Inside blivet's source directory do:

# make test
...
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ERROR: udev_test (unittest.loader.ModuleImportFailure)
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ImportError: Failed to import test module: udev_test
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/unittest/loader.py", line 252, in _find_tests
    module = self._get_module_from_name(name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/unittest/loader.py", line 230, in _get_module_from_name
    __import__(name)
  File "/root/blivet-0.18.33/tests/udev_test.py", line 4, in <module>
    import mock
ImportError: No module named mock



python-mock is not available in the RHEL 7 repos which makes it impossible for QE to execute this package test suite on a regular basis. Please include python-mock (in the optional channel). 

Additional info:
python-mock is build for EPEL 7 (no epel 7 repo exists at this time though):
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=489362

Could you tell me what you mean by "the optional channel"?

This is a rel-eng request.  They need to add the python-mock package to the optional channel.  In RHEL-land, 'channels' are yum repos that provide the packages that make up RHEL.  It is divided up differently than Fedora is (which is really just one big repo).

python-mock is not part of rhel-7.
If we want it in, it needs to go through the new package process.

(In reply to mulhern from comment #3)
> Could you tell me what you mean by "the optional channel"?

Sorry for the late reply,
I mean the repository called Optional/ in RHEL distro ot the channels titled -optional in RHN, not the base Server/ repo(channel).

Why is it not enough to get this package from EPEL as a build dependency?

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