Mock Failures on F11

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Sun Jul 19 09:41:41 UTC 2009


> I'm having a ton of trouble getting "mock --rebuild" to work in F11 --
> I've tried it on several systems (both i386 and x86_64) with
> Fedora-{10,11}-{i386,x86_64} config files and various input SRPMS. None
> of the builds work: mock fails on a "yum depsolv" command with an
> --installroot option.
>
> When I run that yum command outside of Mock, it works without the
> --installroot option and fails with it; I think that points to a
> misconfiguration of something within the chroot image (RPM database
> version, I suspect). Clearing the root image cache has no effect.
>
> Mock on F10 with the same input SRPMS is successful.
>
> I'm losing my mind here, and am feeling the crunch because I'd like to
> use mock under F11 for POSSE this week.
>
> (1) Is anyone else seeing these issues?
> (2) Is there a known fix or workaround?

I'm seeing issues with mock on F-11 but haven't had time to revisit
the issue. It gets as far as the package list that yum wants to
install and then crashes from memory.

Peter




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