CentOS - May 2008 - Setting up a chroot

I'm trying to build GNOME (to run a more recent version than 2.16.* on
CentOS 5.1) and I keep running into a lot of rather strange problems.

I'm wondering if this might have something to do with my hybrid 64 and
32 bit general environment, so I want to try a pure 64-bit chroot.

I've never done this before, and I'm not entirely sure how to, and I
didn't see anything particularly on point, either at centos.org or
google.  If I missed it, just say where and that should be enough.

Guidelines?  Suggestions (other than "go away" or other physically
difficult crudities :-)?

Thanks.

mhr

MHR wrote:
> I'm trying to build GNOME (to run a more recent version than 2.16.* on
> CentOS 5.1) and I keep running into a lot of rather strange problems.
> 
> I'm wondering if this might have something to do with my hybrid 64 and
> 32 bit general environment, so I want to try a pure 64-bit chroot.
> 
> I've never done this before, and I'm not entirely sure how to, and
I
> didn't see anything particularly on point, either at centos.org or
> google.  If I missed it, just say where and that should be enough.
> 
> Guidelines?  Suggestions (other than "go away" or other
physically
> difficult crudities :-)?
> 
Probably the best thing to do is to use mock to build in.

You provide it with some repos and it automatically creates a chroot to 
build things.


http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock

That has some instructions, though you should be able to yum install mock.

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On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 13:52 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Probably the best thing to do is to use mock to build in.
> 
> You provide it with some repos and it automatically creates a chroot to 
> build things.
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock
> 
> That has some instructions, though you should be able to yum install mock.
That doesn't seem to work with the "standard" repositories - is
there
one in particular where this lives?

I tried downloading a source tarball, but it has dependencies that
neither I nor yum recognized....

Thanka.

mhr