Bug 162436 - darcs buildrequires latex2html which does not exist on fc3
Summary: darcs buildrequires latex2html which does not exist on fc3
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: darcs
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jens Petersen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-07-04 17:31 UTC by Karanbir Singh
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-09-28 11:53:16 UTC
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Description Karanbir Singh 2005-07-04 17:31:38 UTC
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Description of problem:
darcs contains BuildRequires:  latex2html
which dosent exist on fc3 / fe3

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
darcs-1.0.3-2.fc3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpmbuild --rebuild darcs-1.0.3-2.fc3.src.rpm
2.
3.
  

Actual Results:  error: Failed build dependencies:
        latex2html is needed by darcs-1.0.3-2.el4.kb.i386


Additional info:

lates2html seems to be a FC4 package ( its there at : http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/ ) - but does not exist on FC3 ( http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/ ).

How did it get build for the FC3 Extras ?

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2005-07-05 03:19:35 UTC
No idea ;-)   but thanks for catching this. :)

Actually it seems the buildrequires for generating docs are not needed
in practice AFAICT since the source tarball comes with 
pre-generated html files anyway.

I removed the unneeded doc buildrequires in cvs now,
so it should get fixed the next time darcs gets built.

Comment 2 Karanbir Singh 2005-07-05 12:27:42 UTC
are there any build /root logs available ? be interesting to see.

I find it surprising that the buildsystem is ignoring a missing BuildRequires
and going ahead with the build anyway.

Comment 3 Michael Schwendt 2005-07-06 08:32:59 UTC
I believe that the yum-modified version of "mach" used in the current build
system ignores "yum install" failures and effectively ignores BuildRequires,
which fail to install [for various reasons].



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