[CentOS] Can anyone compile mtr source RPM on CentOS 6.7?

Tue Mar 8 19:36:15 UTC 2016
Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca>

On 08/03/16 02:32 PM, James Hogarth wrote:
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315856
>>>
>>> What's odd is how it works in Fedora using mock but not EPEL6 with mock
>> ...
>>> got to be down to how the build roots are constructed.
>>>
>>> Decided to do a quick test of something given how EPEL has adjusted
>> macros
>>> recently to reduce boilerplate between Fedora and itself ...
>>>
>>> I just removed the rm -rf line from %clean and got a clean mock build on
>> a
>>> CentOS6 base.
>>>
>>> It must have cleaned out the generated makefile between %build and
>> %install
>>> and that left it with the bare one that had no install: section
>>>
>>> This will bite Red Hat at the 6.8 milestone (unless they build on Fedora)
>>> and presumably CentOS when 6.8 rolls round if RH don't remove the rm -rf
>>> from %clean ;)
>>
>> Should the priority on the bug be changed?
>>
> 
> 
> No leave it as is for now ...
> 
> I'm really quite confused as after it worked I thought I'd try the original
> SRPM again and it worked :/
> 
> I have no idea what has changed on the system to provide for that - doing
> some quick looks now.

OK, let me know if I can assist/test.

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