On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 15:00 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Debuginfo is not made multilib. That pathway leads to insanity. > > Sure. What I was looking for was a way to tell yum to use a different > $basearch in repo lookup for one command. That way may also lead to > insanity, I'm no authority on such things. Another adequate option would > be some specialized yum-utils tool that can be told to go look at an > other-arch repo. e.g. debuginfo-install --arch=i386 or something. A few of the yum-utils commands take a --archlist, repoquery and yumdownloader both do for instance. This is more for looking at data on ppc from an i386 box, as i386 is already in the archlist for x86_64. And that doesn't change what $basearch will be in the config. files because doing that is a really bad idea due to the fact that you'll have changed what /var/cache/yum/blah/ points to without the next run of yum knowing (it's a bad idea to have the same repoid point to more than one place). So what you probably want is to create a blah-i386 to go with your normal blah repo. ... which hardcodes i386 as the arch. Leave it disabled, and then whever you want to use it do: yumdownloader --repoid=blah-i386 whatever... yum --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo=blah-i386 whatever... ...you can use yum-plugin-aliases to simply the later, if you want. -- James Antill - james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "I'd just like to see a realistic approach to updates via packages." -- Les Mikesell -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
