PPC Dependency Issues in mock

Jameson imntreal at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 22:14:31 UTC 2008


On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > You're trying to install and use powerpc packages on i386?
>> > Forget it.
>>
>> I'm not interested in installing them, only doing test builds.
>
> Think twice. What does mock do? It uses RPM to install the packages into a
> chroot and then runs the installed software for building.
>
>> Should I be using an emulator to do test builds instead?
>
> Or koji --scratch builds with the Fedora build system. You can even build
> for specific architectures only.

Thanks a million...  I've been looking for days for the proper way to
do test builds for architectures I don't own.  I'll start looking into
Koji.




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