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. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc