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Mock is a Fedora project that allows you to build RPM packages within a chroot environment, allowing you to build packages for other systems than the one you're running on (e.g. building CentOS 4 32-bit RPMs on a CentOS 5 64-bit host), and ensuring that all the required build dependencies are specified correctly in the RPM spec file.
Mock is a Fedora project that allows you to build RPM packages within a chroot environment, allowing you to build packages for other systems than the one you're running on (e.g. building CentOS 4 32-bit RPMs on a CentOS 5 64-bit host), and ensuring that all the required build dependencies are specified correctly in the RPM spec file.
==== Prerequisites ====
* It is recommended that you use the latest CentOS 6 (64bit) version as a base http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/
* Apply all available updates.
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yum update
yum update
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* You need to have EPEL repository configured as EPELs version of mock will be used
You need to have EPEL repository configured as EPELs version of mock will be used
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# Enable EPEL for Centos 6
# Enable EPEL for Centos 6
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You need to create a new user, for mock will not accept user root for building packages
* You need to create a new user, for mock will not accept user root for building packages
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