[syslog-ng] Rpmbuild syslog-ng-3.2.4-1.el6: FAIL: test_nvtable

[JP Vossen]

On 06/17/2011 10:45 PM, Jose Pedro Oliveira wrote:
> On 2011-06-17 22:30, JP Vossen wrote:
>> I'm trying to get the EPEL6 syslog-ng-3.2.4-1.el6.src.rpm [1] to
>> rpmbuild on CentOS-5 (eventlog-0.2.12-1.el6.src.rpm worked fine).  I'm
>
> FYI: You already have eventlog-0.2.12-1 in the EPEL5 stable repositories.

Oh thanks, I didn't even think to look because the target machines don't 
use EPEL and I'll need to rebuild anyway for policy reasons.


...

>> First, I had to comment out "BuildRequires: tcp_wrappers-devel" since
>> that does not exist in CentOS-5.  I am assuming/hoping that that's
>> simply because the packages were split in RHEL6.
>
> tcp_wrappers in RHEL 5 is still monolithic: just drop the "-devel"
> substring from the build requirement name.
 > See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705486

Duh, that's a better idea.


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>> 	[...]
>> 	Assertion strcmp(name, dyn_name) == 0 failed at line 69
>> 	FAIL: test_nvtable
>> 	[...]
...

> I still haven't found the time to look into the test failure (low
> priority item in my todo list) but maybe someone from Balabit could ;)

So that's a known issue that is not a problem?  RHEL5 only, or 6 too? 
If 6, how does the rpm even build with that spec file?


> You should be aware that you will be plagued by at least two more
> problems by building syslog-ng for EPEL5 using the EPEL6 specfile:
> a logrotate related problem and a nasty macro expansion that causes
> the pidfile to be created in the wrong directory.

OK, thanks for the head's up, I'll look for those.


> Feel free to create a ticket against the EPEL5 syslog-ng package [1]
> requesting the update to version 3.2.4 and I'll keep up to date.

Oh I like that idea even more.  I'll do that tomorrow.

Thanks for the quick reply!
JP