development packages and multilib

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> 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.


Why not? I've built lots of 32 bit packages on 64bit machines using mock 
and setarch.

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