On 09/01/2010 04:37 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> b) To equippe the rpm/yum/mock etc. infrastructure with a mechanism to >>> pull-in "foreign binaries" into a sys-root (E.g. to install Fedora >>> *.ppc.rpm rpms into /usr/ppc-redhat/sys-root). So far, such mechanism >>> doesn't exist. >> >> No need for that eithr. They can figure out >> >> rpm2cpio package | cpio -i - > > Isn't that easy, you'll have to do a bunch of fixups after doing so to > have things actually work. Also automagic fetching of packages > (including dependencies) would be nice. Upgrading them even nicer. You will want such kind of feature when cross-building rpms in mock, e.g. to build *.ppc.rpms on x86_64. > Creating a script (or yum plugin?) doing all that is probably *much* > less work than creating tons of extra packages for userspace cross builds. Yes, that's the idea behind this. Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
