[SOLVED] yum - is it possible to only search packages in repository for ARM on x86 machine?

average_user · 06-09-2015, 08:34 AM

I understand that yum should not install packages for architecture different from one it is executed on. However, is it possible to only search for ARM packages and list their dependencies without installing them on x86 machine? My package repository contains a number of rpm packages for armv7l architecture and no packages for x86. Sometimes I need to to know what are dependencies of a given package. Currently only .noarch packages are found with yum list. I didn't find such option and I rather guess that this is impossible so my next question would be why - is it technically justified or is it just an arbitrary decision "let's not care about other architectures that ours"?

I also tried repolist tool. I installed zypper on my ARM machine. However, I would prefer to be able browse my repository on full-blown x86 box.

joec@home · 06-09-2015, 11:58 AM

You might want to look into the "deplist" option?

from yum man
http://linux.die.net/man/8/yum

deplist
Produces a list of all dependencies and what packages provide those dependencies for the given packages.

With regards to juggling odd RPM's, because of the dependency lists you can end up with a system that is no longer able to install or upgrade anything without a forced function because it will fail all the dependencies. So on a test server, you just download the RPM and run a force install, then see how badly it might possibly break a production server.

John VV · 06-09-2015, 12:05 PM

Quote:

I also tried repolist tool. I installed zypper on my ARM machine. However, I would prefer to be able browse my repository on full-blown x86 box.

WHAT operating system is this ?

you really can NOT install fedora rpms on OpenSUSE

opensuse uses zypper
this is the fedora section

BUT
fedora is deprecating yum
please use the current program " DNF "

average_user · 06-09-2015, 12:21 PM

As I said, I don't to want to install any packages on my system. I work with an ARM development board that uses RPM. We have quite big local repository of RPMs for ARM. I need to know what a given package depends on to be able to quickly install debug packages of all dependent packages in case of a crash of a program that was installed by the given package. I would install these debug packages on a board of course. The problem is that both yum and repolist when pointed to repository of ARM RPMs cannot find any packages and only show *.noarch packages. deplist option also doesn't work:

Code:

$ yum deplist which.noarch
Finding dependencies:
package: which.noarch 0.1-3.1
  dependency: /bin/sh
   Unsatisfied dependency
$ yum deplist <arm-package>
Finding dependencies:
$

EDIT:

I installed zypper on the ARM development board and it finds ARM packages, however I would prefer to be able to that on my x86 machine.

average_user · 06-14-2015, 02:23 PM

Ok, so apparently by design yum or rpm libraries it uses don't care about packages for other architectures and it's not possible to change it without modifying their source code.

Marking this thread as SOLVED.