On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Use a chroot or an i686 vm. Or possibly just do rpmdev-extract on the i686 >> version and run it directly. > > I've been toying with a chroot via mock, but was awkward for a number > of reasons. I've used rpmdev-extract and installed just the binary as > /usr/bin/python2.6-i686 Yeah, it's a little awkward since it's not really made for that purpose but it does work well, a la: mock --init mock --install <packages> mock --shell Of course you need to set a default release and arch to use or just use the "-r fedora-<release>-<arch>" option. I frequently use this method to run rpmlint on installed packages without having to pollute my main system. Richard -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel