unable to use mock

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 04:45 -0700, cranium2003 wrote:
> Hi,
> --- seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 04:16 -0700, cranium2003
> > wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >   I am new to mock tool i followed whats given on
> > wiki
> > > of fedoraproject.org. According to that i set
> > mock.
> > > installed it. then i did su - build
> > > then in build user i gave mock -r
> > > fedora-5-i386-core.cfg foo-0.1.1.src.rpm
> > > and i got output as
> > > =============================
> > > init
> > > clean
> > > prep
> > > This may take a while
> > > Error peforming yum command: /usr/sbin/mock-helper
> > yum
> > > --installroot
> > > /var/lib/mock/fedora-development-i386-core/root
> > > groupinstall build-minimal build-base build
> > > ending
> > > done
> > > =============================
> > > whats wrong happened??
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > what happens when you run this, as root:
> > 
> > yum --installroot
> > /var/lib/mock/fedora-development-i386-core/root \ 
> >     groupinstall build-minimal build-base build
> > 
> > 
>  when i gave 
>  yum --installroot
> /var/lib/mock/fedora-development-i386-core/root 
> groupinstall build-minimal build-base build
> Output->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> http://newmirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Content-Length: 345
> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:43:37 GMT
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Type: text/html
> Server: lighttpd/1.3.16
> Trying other mirror.
> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core
> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No
> more mirrors to try.
> Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno
> 256] No more mirrors to try.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 

rawhide's repository was broken this weekend and the fix hasn't
propagated out to all of the mirrors.

-sv