unable to use mock

[seth vidal]

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


-sv