Avoiding install of x86_64 packages for i386 builds

[Jeff Sheltren]

I'm having a problem when building packages which have a dependency  
sitting in the plague 'repo_dir'.  Since plague puts all arches of a  
package in the same sub directory under 'repo_dir', if a package has  
both i386 and x86_64 binaries, later builds which pull in those  
packages as a dependency will install the x86_64 binary rather than  
the i386 one.  Yes, I have brought this problem on myself - I want to  
have stuff in repo_dir be usable for builds even before those  
packages are pushed to the main repository.  In order to do this, I  
have to point mock to the same repodir for both i386 and x86_64.

So, I have a couple of questions:  is there a way to have plague sort  
packages in the repo_dir differently than it does by default?  How  
does Extras avoid this problem?

Here's an example of the directory structure used:

---- Snip from /etc/mock/fedora-3-i386-core.cfg ---
[updates-plague]
name=updates-plague
baseurl=file:///build/plague/repodir/fedora-3-core/
---- End Snip ----

$ pwd
/build/plague/repodir/fedora-3-core
$ ls
mozilla   repodata
$ ls mozilla/1.7.13-1.3.1.legacy/
i386  SRPM  x86_64

Thanks,
Jeff

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Saturday 13 May 2006 6:34 am, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
>  I'm having a problem when building packages which have a
> dependency
>  sitting in the plague 'repo_dir'.  Since plague puts all arches of a
>  package in the same sub directory under 'repo_dir', if a package has
>  both i386 and x86_64 binaries, later builds which pull in those
>  packages as a dependency will install the x86_64 binary rather than
>  the i386 one.  Yes, I have brought this problem on myself - I want to
>  have stuff in repo_dir be usable for builds even before those
>  packages are pushed to the main repository.  In order to do this, I
>  have to point mock to the same repodir for both i386 and x86_64.
>
>  So, I have a couple of questions:  is there a way to have plague sort
>  packages in the repo_dir differently than it does by default?  How
>  does Extras avoid this problem? 
have a look in the x86_64 mock config files  there
is a line 
exclude=*.i386 *.i686 *.athlon *.i586 *.486

to your i386 mock configs  add
exclude=*.x86_64

--
Dennis Gilmore, RHCE
Proud Australian

[Jeff Sheltren]

On May 13, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:

>  On Saturday 13 May 2006 6:34 am, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> > I'm having a problem when building packages which have a dependency
> > sitting in the plague 'repo_dir'.  Since plague puts all arches of a
> > package in the same sub directory under 'repo_dir', if a package has
> > both i386 and x86_64 binaries, later builds which pull in those
> > packages as a dependency will install the x86_64 binary rather than
> > the i386 one.  Yes, I have brought this problem on myself - I want to
> > have stuff in repo_dir be usable for builds even before those
> > packages are pushed to the main repository.  In order to do this, I
> > have to point mock to the same repodir for both i386 and x86_64.
> >
> > So, I have a couple of questions:  is there a way to have plague sort
> > packages in the repo_dir differently than it does by default?  How
> > does Extras avoid this problem?
>  have a look in the x86_64 mock config files  there is a line
>  exclude=*.i386 *.i686 *.athlon *.i586 *.486
>
>  to your i386 mock configs  add
>  exclude=*.x86_64 
That was easy - thanks for bringing it to my attention!  I don't know  
why I didn't think of that...

-Jeff