D rpm packages for Linux

[Graham Fawcett]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:45:00 +0200, Jordi Sayol i salomó wrote:
> En/na Ellery Newcomer ha escrit:
>>> And My preferred solution, create a i386 chroot machine inside Your
>>> x86_64 system, install dmd package on it and compile Yours D programs
>>> on it too.
>> 
>> I've never found a need to do this (and I also don't know how).
> 
> Try it! is clean, easy and faster than other virtual machines, for text
> mode. I don't know how to install it in Fedora. In Ubuntu just install
> "debootstrap". On Debian-like systems, chroot is used to build/compile
> packages for other architectures    than the host system, if it is
> possible.

+1 for this. On Debian/Ubuntu systems, I find that 'schroot' makes it
very easy to manage and work with chroots, including running chrooted
programs from the host system.

Best,
Graham