Lists wrote: >> >> 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 -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq