Re: Recompiling source rpms for i386, i686 and x86_64 on the same box?

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Mister IT Guru <misteritguru@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 13/01/2011 12:26, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Mister IT Guru<misteritguru@xxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>> At the risk of sounding like an newbie, is is possible to build the RPMS
>>> for all architectures on the same box at the same time? I would really
>>> like to automate this, so that I can keep track of the RPMS's and build
>>> them into my own future repo. (That's another project, I'm sure I'll
>>> come to the list for that one!)
>> *IF* your box is an x86_64 box, you can do it. This is usually done
>> with "mock", by using chroot cages with specific layouts and automatic
>> deployment of relevant libraries.
> I have an x86_64 box running Xen, so a paravirtualised guest has just
> been ordered for building a Mock Environment. I'm going to have to run
> to Google to learn more in the short space of time I have open to me,
> you guys seems to be nudging me in the right direction.
>
> Thank you

That is going nto be unnecessarily slow. If you can run mock on the
Xen server itself, you'll get a noticeable speed-up, especially with
large packages like the kernel and Xorg and gimp and Samba.
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