Building under mock (rawhide)

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jul 12 21:02:13 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 15:51 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 11:46:35 -0500
> Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
> 
> > yo cant build 64 bit binaries on a 32 bit box.  you will need either a 64 bit 
> > box or to setup a qemu guest thats 64 bit.  not the qemu route will be slow as 
> > the cpu will be fully emulated
> > 
> > The error you get is because the host rpm has excluded the 
> > unistallable/runable 64 bit binarries so you end up with only installable 
> > noarch packages
> > 
> > Dennis
> 
> 
> I'm thinking we need to catch this early in mock. Any suggestions on
> how we should detect that we're on a 32-bit arch and the selected
> config is 64 bit? Brute force is just to have a dictionary that rejects
> certain configs.
> 

The list is the only way I could come up with to determine what could
run/build on what.

-sv




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