unable to use mock

[David Timms]

cranium2003 wrote:
> hi,
>       On fresh install of mock when i run
>  yum --installroot
> /var/lib/mock/fedora-development-i386-core/root 
> groupinstall build-minimal build-base build
> i got following error
> 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 13:04:21 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.
> 
> then i found that i need to change
> fedora-5-i386-core.cfg file from
...
> http://extras64.linux.duke.edu/plague-results/development/repodata/repomd.xml:
...
> Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from local: [Errno
> 256] No more mirrors to try.
> 
>    why such things are happening?
Can you get to the above URL ?
   - I can't either, I think this may be an internal one, ie it doesn't 
apply to general extras development; comment out that whole section of 
the .cfg to get past the error.

DaveT.