From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-34 i686; Nav) Description of problem: Building tetex from tetex-1.0.7-15.6.src.rpm (latest update for Red Hat Linux 7.1) fails due to source being older than 12 months. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: rpm -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/tetex.spec "special setting": current system time Additional info: Workaround: Change system time, e. g. date --set="2001-07-09"
Stupid LaTeX. There hasn't *been* a LaTeX release in over two years.. Current rawhide works around this, as does your date twiddling.