Description of problem: When building libsigc++ it makes an assumption that it is connected to the internet. If building the package in an environment that has no connectivity or needs to go through a manually configured firewall, or even if there is some network outage build fails the package should include the docbook files and be configured to use the local copies only. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.build package in conditions above 2. 3. Actual results: build fails Expected results: build to succed Additional info: failure log g++ -O2 -g -pipe -m32 -mcpu=v7 -mtune=ultrasparc -o .libs/hide_test hide_test.o  ../sigc++/.libs/libsigc-1.2.so creating hide_test g++ -O2 -g -pipe -m32 -mcpu=v7 -mtune=ultrasparc -o .libs/method_slot_test method_slot_test.o  ../sigc++/.libs/libsigc-1.2.so /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link --tag=CXX g++  -O2 -g -pipe -m32 -mcpu=v7 -mtune=ultrasparc  -o disappearing_observer_test  disappearing_observer_test.o ../sigc++/libsigc-1.2.la creating method_slot_test g++ -O2 -g -pipe -m32 -mcpu=v7 -mtune=ultrasparc -o .libs/disappearing_observer_test disappearing_observer_test.o  ../sigc++/.libs/libsigc-1.2.so creating disappearing_observer_test make[1]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/libsigc++-1.2.5/tests' Making all in doc make[1]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/libsigc++-1.2.5/doc' make[2]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/libsigc++-1.2.5/doc' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/libsigc++-1.2.5/doc' make[1]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/libsigc++-1.2.5/doc' make[1]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/libsigc++-1.2.5' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/libsigc++-1.2.5' + cd doc/manual + make xsltproc -o html/ --catalogs http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/chunk.xsl libsigc_manual.xml Variable $SGML_CATALOG_FILES not set error : Operation timed out warning: failed to load external entity "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/chunk.xsl" cannot parse http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/chunk.xsl make: *** [html] Error 4 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.93525 (%build)
This is fixed in FE-4 and later. Not worth re-releasing binaries for FE-3.
i guess ill have to backport FE4 package to FE3 its an issue to me as I rebuild the FE3 packages for aurora linux. which is based on fc3.