Re: [CentOS] Centos and Dual Core Opteron in a Tyan Mobo

Lists wrote:

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What this means is, you can't run i386 items (like Open Office) on your x86_64 machine that you want to use for building packages.

Does using mock get around this restriction?

mock will use its own versions of yum config's to build the chroots and rpms - so you can configure it to ignore all non x86_64 and non noarch packages, which works fine.

You can then build either i386 or x86_64 rpm's using mock. BUT, some packages that look at machine type and kernel arch running etc will fail for i386 builds on a x86_64 system, either in mock or any other form of chroot under x86_64.

- KB