[Yum] yum arch handling

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 12:04 -0400, Mark Salter wrote:
> So, I'm toying around with the idea of using yum to install non-hostarch
> packages into some installroot. For instance, I have a repo containing
> some noarch and arm rpms. On an x86 box, given a yum.conf which only
> points to that noarch+arm repo, I'd like to be able to do something
> like:
> 
>   % yum -c my_yum.conf  depsolve 'somepkg'
> 
> The problem is that yum doesn't seem to want anything to do with arches
> which don't make sense for the x86 host. Not even 'list' them. If I run
> the yum list command, only the noarch rpms are shown.
> 
> Am I missing something? Am I crazy for even thinking about such a thing?

If the arch cannot use the pkgs then yum ignores them.

If you can 'setarch' to that arch then yum will work - but I doubt you
can do that with i686->arm.

The trouble is, of course, that scriptlets can't be run. So installing
the pkgs just won't work.

does this help?

-sv