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> One thing I don't have is a build environment that is able to process
> .i686 packages!


Actually as a side not I was wondering how different is environment which
is being used to build .i386 packages from the .i686 one?  I usually only
build the x86_64 ones and simply omit the .i686 ones which is not the best
thing I could do but never actually got around to look up what is the
actual difference?

At the moment I use mock 1.1.18 and its working a treat for i386 and x86_64
arches.