mock 0.8.9 will not build anything

[Lubomir Kundrak]

Hi Frank,

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 18:31 +0100, Frank Büttner wrote:
...
> Ok testet, now an mock init fails with:
>   mock -r fedora-4-i386-epel init
> INFO: mock.py version 0.8.9 starting...
> State Changed: init plugins
> State Changed: start
> State Changed: lock buildroot
> State Changed: clean
> State Changed: init
> ERROR: Could not create dir /var/lib/mock/epel-4-i386/result. Error: 
> [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mock/epel-4-i386/result'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mock/util.py", line 42, in 
> mkdirIfAbsent
>      os.makedirs(dir)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/os.py", line 159, in makedirs
>      mkdir(name, mode)
> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mock/epel-4-i386/result'
> ERROR: Could not create dir /var/lib/mock/epel-4-i386/result. Error: 
> [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mock/epel-4-i386/result'

Does your /var/lib/mock have correct permissions? If you deleted it and
recreated it, please make sure that it is owned by "mock" group, is
group writable, and has a setgid bit set:

drwxrwsr-x 2 root mock 4096 2008-01-20 13:54 /var/lib/mock

Thanks,
-- 
Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)