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Re: pungi/mkisofs for ppc on x64



Jesse Keating wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:57:42 -0600
Doug Maxey <dwm enoyolf org> wrote:

I am trying to compose an f8 ppc iso on an x86_64 machine.  This
should work, as there is no native ppc code run, right?.  All goes
well until we get to the mkisofs stage.

Wrong.  buildinstall has to be ran on ppc, in order to figure out the
kernel stuff right and various other things.

That has me confused, What does buildinstall do that requires the target's CPU?


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