On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 11:19 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > 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. > ^^^ > > You meant x86_64 here, I think. I noticed that switch and noticed that it > didn't help for this case. No, I meant ppc. Normally yum would see ppc packages, when on an x86_64 machine and "know" that it can't use them ... so will auto exclude them. --archlist changes that. > > And that doesn't change what $basearch will be in the config. files > > because doing that is a really bad idea due to the fact that you'll have > > changed what /var/cache/yum/blah/ points to without the next run of yum > > knowing (it's a bad idea to have the same repoid point to more than one > > place). > > Right, I figured that would be the gotcha with what I had in mind. > Maybe it would make sense for yum to name its cache subdirs repo.basearch? > > > So what you probably want is to create a blah-i386 to go with your > > normal blah repo. ... which hardcodes i386 as the arch. Leave it > > disabled, and then whever you want to use it do: > > It seems like a simple enough change to use basearch in the cache dir > names. Then everyone could do this for all the repos without fiddling with > repo configs. Does that seem like something yum could do in the future? > (I'm not asking for any of this to be done next week or anything.) > > Maybe also --repoid et al could grok "reponame.arch" syntax (akin to the > package "name.arch" syntax you can use). Another way to state it is that > the full "repoid" would be "reponame.arch", and "reponame" alone turns into > "reponame.$basearch" implicitly. We've recently changed upstream yum so that the base cachedir can contain variables. Ie. instead of: cachedir = /var/cache/yum ...you can do: cachedir = /var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever ...this solves a couple of problems over using the repo.arch syntax. Having a command line option to change arch/releasever is another challenge, for a couple of reasons. Although x86_64 => i386 there is an easy way, as you can (after the above change) do: setarch i386 yum blah ...and it'll have it's own cachedir. -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
