[CentOS] (re)build sssd-client.i686 for x86_64

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Wed Feb 15 09:44:47 UTC 2017


On 02/15/2017 03:41 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 02/15/2017 02:39 AM, Stijn De Weirdt wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> i'm trying to rebuild the current sssd-client.i686 rpm that is part of
>> the x86_64 repo, but i fail to do so. rebuilding the sssd.src.rpm on
>> x86_64 does not produce this rpm.
>>
>> i can rebuild sssd.src.rpm with --target=i686, but that sssd-client rpm
>> has conflicts and a whole bunch of i686 deps that the rpm from the
>> centos repo doesn't have.
>>
>> tips/help welcome
> 
> I'll assume CentOS-7 as you don't really say which version.  This works
> for CentOS-6 as well though.
> 
> RHEL-7 does not contain a full i686 tree, only some of that tree in the
> form of multilib packages.  However to BUILD those i686 packages, you
> need a full i686 repo in your build system.
> 
> CentOS-7 does actually have an AltArch i686 SIG that produces a fully
> installable i686 arch.  You could use this arch and mock to build i686
> packages on an x86_64 CentOS-7 machine.
> 
> You always want to build SRPMs in mock instead of using rpmbuild on a
> normal system because when building the configure files look for things
> to link against .. if it finds extra things installed on your system
> (like desktop files or extra repository packages) it can link against
> those files and then require things you don't want.  Mock creates a
> separate minimal chroot and adds only requirements of the specific SRPM
> to that minimal root.  The RPMs produced are then only linked against
> that very controlled build root.
> 
> There are mock configs for both CentOS-6 i386 and CentOS-7 i386 that
> will work to build packages in mock and use the CentOS Base and Updates
> repos by default.
> 
> You can also see all the mock configs we use on CentOS-7 here:
> 
> https://git.centos.org/tree/sig-core!bld-seven.git/37012c4fe4f69aa649fdb3e9b1ec002aafd2054f/mock

I forgot to say that we have a mock in centos extras for CentOS-7.  You
can get it with:

yum install mock


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