Re: [CentOS] Building a C5 chroot on a C6 machine

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:38:18PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:

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I'm trying to do something slightly silly; rather than having a C5 machine and a C6 machine around for compiling and testing, I want to create a C5 chroot area. Something similar to "mock" but using lvm snapshots and some local config specific stuff.

(Potentially even using Linux Containers to enter the chroot environment).

Even if it is possible to get everything right that way, is it really worth the trouble compared to a VM?

Yes. I have use cases and constraints that aren't relevant to the technical problem but impact the overall problem. Additional VMs are highly non-optimal.