> I'd like to create a yum repository and host it on > a Debian (stable) machine. Using rsync/wget/etc is > no problem, however I'd like to be able to add packages. > This would require a functional yum-arch. > > Debian's rpm stuff doesn't have the python > /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/rpmmodule.so file > (part of the rpm-python-4.0.4-7x.18 package on my > Red Hat 7.3 box, for example) which pretty much kills > yum-arch. > > Before I go trying to find source and compiling it myself, > I thought I'd ask if anyone has already been down this > road successfully. Although my case is quite different, I suggest you just extract the rpmmodule.so file from a rpm-python package and use it. We have the repository on a Solaris machine with rpm 4.0.2 from Rutgers university (it includes the python module), and python 1.6 from solaris freeware. The only problem is a warning message from python, telling that the rpm module is compiled for other python API (1.5). But the whole yum and the module works very good. Although I guess that any rpm-python from 4.0.x series should work with any 4.0.x rpm binary, I think is much safer to get a rpmmodule from the same rpm version you run. Javier Palacios
