On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Adam Jackson
<ajax(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Use a chroot or an i686 vm. Or possibly just do rpmdev-extract on the i686
> version and run it directly.
I've been toying with a chroot via mock, but was awkward for a number
of reasons. I've used rpmdev-extract and installed just the binary as
/usr/bin/python2.6-i686
Yeah, it's a little awkward since it's not really made for that
purpose but it does work well, a la:
mock --init
mock --install <packages>
mock --shell
Of course you need to set a default release and arch to use or just
use the "-r fedora-<release>-<arch>" option.
I frequently use this method to run rpmlint on installed packages
without having to pollute my main system.
Richard