[Yum] yum bug

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 21:43 +0800, Stuart Midgley wrote:
> Sorry, I did not get your reply to my bug report (I am not subscribed 
> to the list).  I only found the list after looking for a resolution to 
> my problem.
> 
> 	server node:/etc/rpm/platform: i686-redhat-linux
> 	compute node image:/etc/rpm/platform: x86_64-redhat-linux
> 
> as indicated in my initial post.
> 
> This is a clustered system.  I have a x86 server and x86_64 compute 
> nodes.  I am trying to install the x86_64 RPM's into a mounted disk 
> image on the x86 server using the --installroot flag.
> 

to my knowledge yum can't install for one arch while running on a
different arch.

it's a corner case I've never thought or considered implementing.
if you want to mess with it - change /etc/rpm/platform to read x86_64-
redhat-linux and see what it does.

-sv