On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 12:04 -0400, Mark Salter wrote: > So, I'm toying around with the idea of using yum to install non-hostarch > packages into some installroot. For instance, I have a repo containing > some noarch and arm rpms. On an x86 box, given a yum.conf which only > points to that noarch+arm repo, I'd like to be able to do something > like: > > % yum -c my_yum.conf depsolve 'somepkg' > > The problem is that yum doesn't seem to want anything to do with arches > which don't make sense for the x86 host. Not even 'list' them. If I run > the yum list command, only the noarch rpms are shown. > > Am I missing something? Am I crazy for even thinking about such a thing? If the arch cannot use the pkgs then yum ignores them. If you can 'setarch' to that arch then yum will work - but I doubt you can do that with i686->arm. The trouble is, of course, that scriptlets can't be run. So installing the pkgs just won't work. does this help? -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
