can't build anything locally in mock on FC4

[Ed Hill <ed eh3 com>]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to review the torque package and mock builds have been
routinely failing for me.  I'm running FC4 on i383.  If I look in the
logs, I see:

$ more /var/lib/mock/fedora-4-i386-core/result/mockconfig.log

...lots 'o stuff snipped...

Executing /usr/sbin/mock-helper yum
--installroot /var/lib/mock/fedora-4-i386-core/root groupinstall build
http://newmirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from core: [Errno 256] No more
mirrors to try.
Cleaning up...
Executing /usr/sbin/mock-helper
umount /var/lib/mock/fedora-4-i386-core/root/proc
Executing /usr/sbin/mock-helper
umount /var/lib/mock/fedora-4-i386-core/root/dev/pts
Done.

Is there something I can do locally to fix this?  The local mock builds
have always been slow for me but this is really frustrating...

thanks,
Ed

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