On 13/01/2011 12:12, JohnS wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 10:25 +0000, Mister IT Guru wrote: >> At the risk of sounding like an newbie, is is possible to build the RPMS >> for all architectures on the same box at the same time? > That would be dependent upon your build environment and how you set it up. > As in a mock based chroot or a Non-Root build system along with cross-compiler tools etc. > Takes a lot of planing to go along with it also. I am prepared to build a seperate machine specifically for this purpose. It'll be a 64 bit instance, which I am assuming should have no problem compiling for 32 bit systems? I have heard of the mock project, but I have not looked into it for a while. I guess that will be my first port of call. > For the 3 arches you want they could all be done under mock in a x86_64 > environment. Under Non-Root x86_64 Multilib arch machine can be done also with great care > in how you choose your devel packages. > > Automation could be done with a wrapper script setup, really easy to do. > Sometimes you just can not automate every part of it so I would not > expect that. You would need to do manual checks on the outcome of the > srpm and the binary or build a unit test framework. > > John Thanks John, Unit Test Framework - Hmmm, I like the way your thinking, then I suppose I could use it for more than just one source code project. I think this is getting just a touch off topic, but should still be relevant to the sysadmins in the house? hehe -- The Solo System Admin - Follow me - I follow you http://solosysad.blogspot.com/ Latest Entry: Bacula - Building from source -- Mister IT Guru At Gmx Dot Com