On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 21/01/16 10:15 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Ian Malone <ibmal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Successfully build and run 20+ year old programs without having to >>> completely rewrite them would be one of the things I want today. In >>> fact it's one of the things I was doing earlier this week. >> >> >> Is there a reason that would not work in mock? > > > A developer who wants to build a 32-bit program on x86_64 might not > be in the mock group. Their system administrator might not want to > give them access to the mock group, given that it's effectively root, > but might be happy to install foobar-devel.i686 for them.
True, but that is policy beyond the scope of Fedora, not technical reasons for it to not be possible. Also, perhaps such users can use local KVM guests to build on, etc. We cannot account for all such policy decisions various sysadmins make. > "gcc -m32" is simpler than using a chroot or container. You're arguing convenience. I'm not saying that is wrong, but it is not an answer to the question I asked really. josh -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
