Re: mock errors

[Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch dell com>]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 05:58:42PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >> I on occasion get the following errors when running mock to do with DB
> >> errors. It seems to happen when I add the koji repo but this time its
> >> not enabled and I've even removed the contents of the entire mock
> >> build dir and I still get the error. Can anyone shed any light on this
> >> issue?
> >
> > may be related to:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458234
> >
> > If you disable the root cache, does it cease to fail?
> 
> Looks very similar. If I clean out the cache it does generally work
> although I think I may have seen it without the cache too but I tried
> a few different things and that could be me getting them mixed up. If
> I enable the local (koji) repo in the mock config files it happens
> just about everytime. I had some vague idea it might have been the
> repo sqllite db version dependent on the repo you get but I have no
> real idea whether that would make a difference or not or even if each
> mirror re-generates the yum sqllite DB.

the mirrors absolutely do not regenerate anything.  If they did, the
contents would change, and MM would think they weren't up-to-date and
would drop them.

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Matt Domsch
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