Known mock/yum problem?

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Mon Jun 25 15:22:16 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 16:18 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Came across an oddity today and I'm not sure if it's mock or yum that's 
> the problem.
> 
> I'm running with these updates from updates-testing (on an FC7 host):
> mock-0.7.2-1.fc7
> yum-3.2.1-1.fc7
> 
> My rawhide mock config points to a single baseurl for the fedora repo, 
> and goes through a local squid proxy. I'm also using autocache.
> 
>  From time to time packages cannot be retrieved over the network, 
> perhaps due to the mirror being in mid-sync, or maybe transient network 
> issues.
> 

Try this as a good test: Make a package with a BuildRequires:
something-that-doesn't-exist

If the build doesn't bail, then we have a problem, if it does bail, then
we're fine.


Can you test that and let me know?

-sv





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