On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > Hi Akemi, > > On 01/06/2011 03:40 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> Here is a potential candidate (virt-top build bug): >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661783 >> >> It's one of the many bugzilla reports filed by Levente Farkas and one >> of the few RH responded. Apparently they included a bogus dependency >> in the spec. So, the remedy is either patch the spec or add the >> required package in the build environment. > > Comment #5 from Rich clears it up quite nicely from our ( the CentOS ) > side of things, the upstream package was built with that dep, so we > would need to as well. I havent looked at the build logs to see if there > is any buildtime or usage side implications. But it looks pretty clear > for us, we need to build with that dep But what if the spec file is missing, say, BuildRequires ? Would you add it to the CentOS spec ? Otherwise it won't build, of course. Apparently there is a known case in RHEL-6. Akemi