On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 21:43 +0800, Stuart Midgley wrote: > Sorry, I did not get your reply to my bug report (I am not subscribed > to the list). I only found the list after looking for a resolution to > my problem. > > server node:/etc/rpm/platform: i686-redhat-linux > compute node image:/etc/rpm/platform: x86_64-redhat-linux > > as indicated in my initial post. > > This is a clustered system. I have a x86 server and x86_64 compute > nodes. I am trying to install the x86_64 RPM's into a mounted disk > image on the x86 server using the --installroot flag. > to my knowledge yum can't install for one arch while running on a different arch. it's a corner case I've never thought or considered implementing. if you want to mess with it - change /etc/rpm/platform to read x86_64- redhat-linux and see what it does. -sv
