hi johnny, apologies, yes this is centos7 on x86_64. i had to set PKGCONFIG_DIR, but that looked like the only thing. i'll give mock a try and see what comes out. thanks a lot stijn On 02/15/2017 10:44 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >