unable to use mock

[Paul Howarth]

cranium2003 wrote:
>  i gave
>  yum --installroot
> /var/lib/mock/fedora-development-i386-core/root 
> groupinstall build-minimal build-base build
> 
> and since 20 min its doing nothing neither show any
> error nor any messages.

It will take a long time because it's downloading and installing all the 
packages needed for a minimal build environment, and setting it up under 
/var/lib/mock/fedora-development-i386/root. It will do this again every 
time you run mock, so it's a good idea to have a local mirror or a 
decent cache as described on the MockTricks wiki page.

>    Also nobody here is talking about where to change
> exactly in /etc/mock/fedora-5-i386-core.cfg OR in
> /var/lib/mock/fedora-development-i386/root/etc/yum.conf
> as chnage in one is not going to propogate in other,

Everything under /var/lib/mock/fedora-development-i386/root will be 
blown away and re-creeted every time you run mock with that 
configuration, so it's pointless editing anything there. The 
/etc/mock/fedora-5-i386-core.cfg file is the one you need to tweak.

>  ohh while writing this mail i finally got some output
> from that command and its nothing but its chosen to
> update 140 packages of 116M. so whats that command
> doing exactly? and does that mean when i do
> su - build
> and will give
> mock -r fedora-5-i385-core.cfg foo.src.rpm will give
> me some output and not a error?

It'll do the same download as before, then install all the buildreqs and 
their dependencies for foo.src.rpm, then try to rebuild that SRPM.

Paul.