On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Jason Pyeron wrote: > >> Does anyone have experience using mock on RHEL5 with the RHN? >> >> I use mock easily on Centos, I get errors like /bin/sh not found, useradd not >> found build failed? messages from it on RHEL w/ RHN. >> >> Any suggestions on where to start looking. > > What I do for RPMforge is using an mrepo setup that synchronizes yum > repositories from RHN using rhnget. Then point my buildsystem to those > repositories. You can do the same with mock. I use reposync to build a local yum repository. And I disable by default, and only re-enable as necessary, the yum-rhn-plugin. (It's such a resource pig on running systems!!!) and point my hosts to a local repository, very much like CentOS does with its yum mirrors. .