I eventually found a work around, allowing to circumvent the time-out (error code 110) of Koji. The work around consists in forcing the "authtype=noauth" option: cat /etc/koji.conf [...] ;configuration for SSL authentication authtype = noauth [...]
Now, when trying to build from Fedora checked-out directory, I get the following error: $ /usr/bin/koji build dist-6E-epel 'cvs:// cvs.fedoraproject.org/cvs/pkgs?rpms/R-msm/EL-6#R-msm-0_9_1-2_el6' GenericError: task must have an owner
And, trying with the -d (debug) option, in order to get the Python call stack: $ koji -d build dist-6E-epel 'cvs:// cvs.fedoraproject.org/cvs/pkgs?rpms/R-msm/EL-6#R-msm-0_9_1-2_el6' successfully connected to hub Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/koji", line 5077, in <module> rv = locals()[command].__call__(options, session, args) File "/usr/bin/koji", line 796, in handle_build task_id = session.build(source, target, opts, priority=priority) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/koji/__init__.py", line 1468, in __call__ return self.__func(self.__name,args,opts) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/koji/__init__.py", line 1718, in _callMethod raise err koji.GenericError: task must have an owner
Note that I have imported the CVS-checkout package with 'fedora-cvs R-msm', and that all went well.
If you have any idea, do not hesitate.
Regards
Denis