On 10/04/2012 05:18 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
No magic there, just basic sysadmin know-how from experience with Unix systems since 1987.... :-P
The key piece of my build setup is smock.pl. I'll be posting some time this afternoon more details on my setup, inlcuding a rough outline of the process I have thus far used (once I am satisfied that my process looks like it might actually work, that is, since I haven't gotten up to 5.6 yet.....).
And it *is* a manual process; there are steps that I have used that would be difficult to automate in any reasonable manner.
I think its worth doing the 'find srpms that exclude ia64' and work out their dep chain - I suspect you have quite a few more RPMS than are needed to be upstream compatible.
Also worth keeping in mind is that while its a good idea to build the BuildArch: noarch ones' you should not block on those failing - I remember a bunch were not happy on ia64's arch type.