[CentOS] Setting up a chroot

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Thu May 29 18:52:25 UTC 2008


MHR wrote:
> I'm trying to build GNOME (to run a more recent version than 2.16.* on
> CentOS 5.1) and I keep running into a lot of rather strange problems.
> 
> I'm wondering if this might have something to do with my hybrid 64 and
> 32 bit general environment, so I want to try a pure 64-bit chroot.
> 
> I've never done this before, and I'm not entirely sure how to, and I
> didn't see anything particularly on point, either at centos.org or
> google.  If I missed it, just say where and that should be enough.
> 
> Guidelines?  Suggestions (other than "go away" or other physically
> difficult crudities :-)?
> 

Probably the best thing to do is to use mock to build in.

You provide it with some repos and it automatically creates a chroot to 
build things.


http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock

That has some instructions, though you should be able to yum install mock.

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