I have been dinking with the netwinder port of Red Hat Linux, based on RHL9. One of the capabilites of the unit ( per the excellent documentation at http://www.netwinder.org/ ) is to boot across the LAN. I spent the day working to see if I could get yum to solve an install for another architecture, to test this out. I got close. Very very close -- Curiously, it does not actually do the download at the point it says it has done 'Getting' the rpms. (Shades of my yum RFE #93 on a 'retrieve' option) The porting was mechanical, and looks as though it could be generalized rather easily. A better solution would probably be to graft in a '--targetarch= option', but this may be too much of a corner case to be worth the effort. If the retrieve had completed, it would be simple enough to have rpm (in this very narrow case) --nodeps install a complete transaction set in a changed -root . For anyone wanting to play along, I have placed rpms at: ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/ORC/yum_armv4l/ If others have a more elegant solution, or a way past the stop point encountered, I would appreciate hearing from them. -- Russ Herrold [herrold@ftp bin]$ sudo ./ORCnetwinder-boot headers already exists and is writable, overwriting Digesting rpms 100 % complete: zlib-1.1.4-8.armv4l.rpm Total: 226 Used: 226 Src: 0 Writing header.info file D: opening db environment /tftpboot/netwinder/root/var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv D: opening db index /tftpboot/netwinder/root/var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42 D: locked db index /tftpboot/netwinder/root/var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db index /tftpboot/netwinder/root/var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /tftpboot/netwinder/root/var/lib/rpm/Packages Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Red Hat Linux - - Base Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies ...Dependencies resolved I will do the following: [install: 0:rpm-4.2-0.69.armv4l] [install: 0:kernel-2.4.19-7.armv4l] I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the dependencies: [deps: 0:gawk-3.1.1-9.armv4l] [deps: 0:popt-1.8-0.69.armv4l] [deps: 0:basesystem-8.0-2.noarch] [deps: 0:ncurses-5.3-4.armv4l] [deps: 0:mktemp-1.5-18.armv4l] [deps: 0:fileutils-4.0-8.armv4l] [deps: 0:info-4.3-5.armv4l] [deps: 0:glibc-2.3.2-27.9_nw3.armv4l] [deps: 0:libgcc-3.3-1_nw1.armv4l] [deps: 0:glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9_nw3.armv4l] [deps: 2:shadow-utils-4.0.3-6.armv4l] [deps: 0:textutils-2.0-2.armv4l] [deps: 0:zlib-1.1.4-8.armv4l] [deps: 0:setup-2.5.25-1.noarch] [deps: 0:libtermcap-2.0.8-35.armv4l] [deps: 0:termcap-11.0.1-16.noarch] [deps: 0:bash-2.05b-20.armv4l] [deps: 0:filesystem-2.2.1-3.armv4l] [deps: 0:elfutils-libelf-0.76-3.armv4l] [deps: 0:bzip2-libs-1.0.2-8.armv4l] Is this ok [y/N]: y Getting gawk-3.1.1-9.armv4l.rpm Getting popt-1.8-0.69.armv4l.rpm Getting basesystem-8.0-2.noarch.rpm Getting ncurses-5.3-4.armv4l.rpm Getting mktemp-1.5-18.armv4l.rpm Getting rpm-4.2-0.69.armv4l.rpm Getting fileutils-4.0-8.armv4l.rpm Getting info-4.3-5.armv4l.rpm Getting glibc-2.3.2-27.9_nw3.armv4l.rpm Getting kernel-2.4.19-7.armv4l.rpm Getting libgcc-3.3-1_nw1.armv4l.rpm Getting glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9_nw3.armv4l.rpm Getting shadow-utils-4.0.3-6.armv4l.rpm Getting textutils-2.0-2.armv4l.rpm Getting zlib-1.1.4-8.armv4l.rpm Getting setup-2.5.25-1.noarch.rpm Getting libtermcap-2.0.8-35.armv4l.rpm Getting termcap-11.0.1-16.noarch.rpm Getting bash-2.05b-20.armv4l.rpm Getting filesystem-2.2.1-3.armv4l.rpm Getting elfutils-libelf-0.76-3.armv4l.rpm Getting bzip2-libs-1.0.2-8.armv4l.rpm Errors installing: ('package filesystem-2.2.1-3 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9_nw3 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package glibc-2.3.2-27.9_nw3 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package libgcc-3.3-1_nw1 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package mktemp-1.5-18 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package popt-1.8-0.69 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package zlib-1.1.4-8 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package libtermcap-2.0.8-35 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package bash-2.05b-20 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package ncurses-5.3-4 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package info-4.3-5 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package gawk-3.1.1-9 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package fileutils-4.0-8 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package textutils-2.0-2 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package elfutils-libelf-0.76-3 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package bzip2-libs-1.0.2-8 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package shadow-utils-4.0.3-6 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package rpm-4.2-0.69 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) ('package kernel-2.4.19-7 is intended for a armv4l architecture', (0, 'armv4l', 0L)) [herrold@ftp bin]$ cat ./ORCnetwinder-boot #!/bin/sh # # /home/herrold/bin/ORCnetwinder-boot # SRC="/var/ftp/pub/mirror1/netwinder.org/RPMS/base" DST="/tftpboot/netwinder/root/" # [ -d $DST/var/lib/rpm/ ] && { mkdir -p $DST/var/lib/rpm mkdir -p $DST/var/cache/yum mkdir -p $DST/etc/ } yum_armv4l-arch $SRC rpm -vv --root $DST --initdb head -8 /etc/yum.conf > $DST/etc/yum.conf cat - << END >> $DST/etc/yum.conf cachedir=$DST/var/cache/yum/ # basearch=armv4l # arch=armv4l diskspacecheck=0 [base] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=file://$SRC END yum_armv4l -c $DST/etc/yum.conf --installroot=$DST install \ kernel rpm # [herrold@ftp bin]$ The config file for the rpm set I am attempting an install from is: [root@ftp root]# cat lftp-netwinder.org.conf # # # mirror ftp://ftp.netwinder.org/pub/netwinder/images/ \ mirror ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/netwinder/pub/netwinder/images \ /var/ftp/pub/mirror1/netwinder.org/images # mirror ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/netwinder/pub/netwinder/RPMS\ /var/ftp/pub/mirror1/netwinder.org/RPMS mirror ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/netwinder/pub/netwinder/SRPMS \ /var/ftp/pub/mirror1/netwinder.org/SRPMS mirror ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/netwinder/pub/netwinder/updates \ /var/ftp/pub/mirror1/netwinder.org/updates [root@ftp root]#
