i386 package building on an amd64 system

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt wrote:

KVS> > possibly stupid question: it there a way to fool jail (real, not "tinderbox" 
KVS> > one) that it's working under i386 kernel? This would be extremely useful for 
KVS> > local package building.
KVS> 
KVS> We do it by creating an i386 chroot on the amd64-machine. Works perfectly.

I'm a bit frightened by information which is exported by kernel (which is 
64bit) - or is this case treated specially? We can fool uname, but what about 
sysctls?

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:				     marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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