development packages and multilib

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 04:19:57PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 14:48 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> > What is wrong with using mock?
> 
> It's slow, awkward and completely un-neccessary.

And needs root to go and set it up.  And can't be nested.

Mock, for example, isn't useful for us building 32 bit appliances on
64 bit machines.  (Neither is multilib for that matter - we really do
need real cross-compilation and/or febootstrap + qemu).

Rich.

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