I am in the process of replacing old proprietary code that was used to create/upgrade these diskless partitions with yum. The controller cards is running stripped down version of 64-bit EL5. The cards are also based on 64-bit EL5.
I need to create a multilib (64-bit executables and libraries + 32-bit libraries) version of the diskless partition. To do that I created a meta rpm spec file containing all the dependant packages that I need to install on the non-controller cards. So the meta package spec file contains a large list of "requires" statements - one for each dependant package that I want to install (probably overkill). I built this package twice - once on 32-bit system and once on 64-bit system so I ended up with two rpm packages - foo.i386.rpm and foo.x86_64.rpm.
Next I created a local repository on the controller cards with all required/dependent packages - both x86_64 version and i386 versions. The repository also contains foo.i386.rpm and foo.x86_64.rpm.
To create a diskless partition I executed the following command:
yum -y --enablerepo my_repo --installroot=/tftpboot/diskless_part/ install foo
After reading YUM FAQ #9 I expected that YUM would install i386 and x86_version of foo - which it did - and i386 and x86_64 version of every dependent package - which it DID NOT. None of the i386 dependant packages was intalled.
I wonder if my expectation was wrong and if it was why? Is there any other way to install 32-bit libraries onto the diskless partition I had created? Currently /lib does not contain any libraries.
I am running yum 3.2.8.
Any help greatly appreciated,
Piotr
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