On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Mister IT Guru <misteritguru at gmx.com> wrote: > On 13/01/2011 12:26, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Mister IT Guru<misteritguru at gmx.com> 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? I would really >>> like to automate this, so that I can keep track of the RPMS's and build >>> them into my own future repo. (That's another project, I'm sure I'll >>> come to the list for that one!) >> *IF* your box is an x86_64 box, you can do it. This is usually done >> with "mock", by using chroot cages with specific layouts and automatic >> deployment of relevant libraries. > I have an x86_64 box running Xen, so a paravirtualised guest has just > been ordered for building a Mock Environment. I'm going to have to run > to Google to learn more in the short space of time I have open to me, > you guys seems to be nudging me in the right direction. > > Thank you That is going nto be unnecessarily slow. If you can run mock on the Xen server itself, you'll get a noticeable speed-up, especially with large packages like the kernel and Xorg and gimp and Samba.