FC5 ISO Re-Spins

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 15:49 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 14:38 -0500, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:03 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > Can you show me how it failed on i386?  What were your steps, where did
> > > it go boom?  Tracebacks or whatnot from the boom?
> > 
> > Here is the output at the point of failure
> [snip]
> > Again this is building x86_64 on i386, the instructions used worked for
> > i386 on i386. Instructions are based on
> > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/gene_czarcinski/update_distro/
> > modified and updated for FC5. 
> > 
> > Should we be using Mock for this as alan pointed out above?
> 
> Using mock isn't the important part, but you'll need to make sure that
> things think that you're running on 32-bit as otherwise, arch scoring
> will want x86_64 pieces.  You might be able to get away with just
> running the commands under setarch, but setarch + a chroot is safer[1]

...

and as Jesse points out, I read your message backwards.

There are ways to do i386 on x86_64, but x86_64 on i386 isn't going to
work with the current set of tools

Jeremy