PPC Dependency Issues in mock

[Jameson]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:38:00 -0400, Jameson wrote:
>
>> I still can't find anything on this.  I've tried using setarch to
>> change the reported architecture to ppc, but it says that it's
>> unrecognized.  Can anybody give me a lead?  Thanks.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Jameson <imntreal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm trying to use mock to test building packages on architectures I
>> > don't have access to (PPC and PPC64), but am running into some
>> > trouble.  Using an unmodified config file, mock -r fedora-9-ppc --init
>> > is giving me a lot of dependency errors, starting with Missing
>> > Dependency: perl(Getopt::Long), and getting worse with things like
>> > Missing Dependency: /bin/sh and Missing Dependency: /bin/bash.
>> > Obviously, since I can't even get bash installed, I can't shell into
>> > the chroot to look around.  Any idea what's wrong?  I have changed my
>> > default config (for i386) to use local repo mirrors.
>
> You're trying to install and use powerpc packages on i386?
> Forget it.

I'm not interested in installing them, only doing test builds.  Should
I be using an emulator to do test builds instead?