[Yum] "yum list" shows only a few package

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:48 -0700, Garrick Staples wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:41:07PM -0400, seth vidal alleged:
> > On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:35 -0700, Garrick Staples wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:42:12AM -0600, evaughn at tomax.com alleged:
> > > > I have set up a local yum repository server for  RHEL x86_64  and 
> > > > connected to it with clients using yum 2.0.4. However, the clients show 
> > > 
> > > Didn't that older yum have problems with "biarch" distros?  I've been
> > > using yum 2.0.7 on RHEL3 for quite some time on x86_64 with no problems.
> > > And of course, 2.0.8 has been out for over a year.
> > 
> > I don't remember it having list problems - but I'm sure there were other
> > problems.
> > 
> > so no matter what -upgrading to 2.0.8 or just grab the yum from centos
> > 3.6
> 
> As long as we're on the subject, I'm surprised ia32e hasn't come up
> before with 2.0.x.  I guess everyone else in the world besides me had
> already moved on to 2.2/2.4 when ia32e showed up.
> 
> I've had this patch in my yum 2.0.7 since March and never got around to
> telling anyone about it.  Here it is recut for 2.0.8:
> 
> --- archwork.py_orig    2005-10-27 11:42:42.000000000 -0700
> +++ archwork.py 2005-10-27 11:43:01.000000000 -0700
> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def compatArchList():
>      archdict['ia64']=['ia64','noarch', 'i686', 'i386', 'i486', 'i586']
>      archdict['s390']=['noarch','s390']
>      archdict['s390x']=['noarch','s390','s390x']
> -    archdict['x86_64']=['noarch','x86_64','athlon','i386','i486','i586','i686']
> +    archdict['x86_64']=['noarch','ia32e','x86_64','athlon','i386','i486','i586','i686']
>      archdict['parisc']=['hppa2.0','hppa1.2','hppa1.2','hppa1.1','hppa1.0','paris','noarch']
>      myarch=getArch()
>      if archdict.has_key(myarch):
> 

this is why I said to get the yum with centos 3.6 - it's been merged in
there for a while.

and later versions of yum already support it.

-sv