Mock & yum.conf Don't Play Nicely...

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Peter Gordon wrote, at 04/22/2007 08:23 AM +9:00:
> Hi, all. I'm going through the vegastrike reviews and I can't seem to
> build anything in mock. Whether or not I use the autocache feature, it
> still bails out with the following error:
> 
> $ mock --debug --autocache -r fedora-devel-x86_64-core SRPMS/vegastrike*
> DEBUG: ensuring
> dir /var/lib/mock/fedora-development-x86_64-core/root/etc/yum
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/mock", line 1046, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/bin/mock", line 1043, in main
>     do_rebuild(config_opts, srpms)
>   File "/usr/bin/mock", line 910, in do_rebuild
>     my.prep()
>   File "/usr/bin/mock", line 254, in prep
>     self._prep_install()
>   File "/usr/bin/mock", line 659, in _prep_install
>     os.symlink('../yum.conf', os.path.join(yumdir, 'yum.conf'))
> OSError: [Errno 17] File exists

This message is very similar with the bug I reported:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230824

Current workarround is to downgrade mock to 0.6.11.

Mamoru