Re: Yum $releasever $basearch
From: John Austin (ja_at_jaa.org.uk)
Date: 05/25/05
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To: Fedora Core List <fedora-list@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 15:13:59 +0100
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 19:53 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On 5/24/05, John Austin <ja@jaa.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 13:34 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 13:18 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 13:15 +0100, John Austin wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > Along the same lines:
> > > > > Is it therefore impossible to force yum to use different
> > > > > release and basearch without editing the .repro files ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Eg On an x86-64 FC install
> > > > > Remove firefox-64 as the plugins aren't there and install firefox-i386
> > > > > using yum (and hence jre-i386 with plugins)
> > > > > Doing this by hand seems painful !!
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a better way ?
>
> It's really not that painful : ). There are some things that you can
> do to help ease the pain. Keep reading.
>
> > > > Not having an x86_64 box, I can't try this myself, but try putting:
> > > >
> > > > exclude=firefox.x86_64
> > > >
> > > > in your /etc/yum.conf
> > >
> > > This is to stop it getting reinstalled btw.; if you already have it
> > > installed, you can remove it using:
> > >
> > > # yum remove firefox.x86_64
> > >
> > > A plain "yum install firefox" should then pick up the i386 version
> > > because the x86_64 version is excluded. That's the theory anyway :-)
> > >
> > > Paul.
>
> That would work if firefox.i386 was in the x86_64 tree, but it is not.
> That is, yum will only look in the x86_64 tree unless told to do so
> otherwise. The programs/libraries that get installed that are 32-bit
> are actually in the x86_64 tree in addition to the i386 tree. It
> would be nice to have firefox.i386 put in the x86_64 tree for this
> reason.
>
> > Paul
> > I confess I am not sure if what I am trying to do is sensible !!!!
> > Two problems really
> > 1. Installing to the "wrong" basearch (x86-64 versions not available)
>
> This is no problem. The big deal about AMD64 is that it runs i386 as
> well as or better than 32-bit processors. Go ahead and use that great
> capability when you need to : ). Note that you already have some i386
> packages installed. OpenOffice is the big one.
>
> > 2. Installing to the "wrong" releasever (yum repo not available for the
> > releasever yet)
>
> This is probably a Bad Thing (tm). More on that below.
>
> > I have a Athlon64 machine with FCT3 x86-64 installed.
> > Although my first email was wrt firefox and yum
> > I have now installed firefox-i386 (tar) and
> > jre-i386 (rpm-bin) by hand. Working OK
> > (I have not tried your suggestion yet !!!!)
>
> Why not just go to your favorite mirror, grab the firefox.i386 rpm and
> install it by hand? Or if you really want to, create a custom repo
> file with the i386 repo that you want. You are right that you cannot
> use the normal mirror files; I just took the local (.us.east for me)
> file, copied the contents, and edited all the lines to have the
> correct arch. CAUTION: you should have any i386 repos disabled by
> default and enable them only when installing/updating the needed
> 32-bit programs (use the --enablerepo option).
>
> > The general question is whether it is possible/sensible
> > to try to use yum to install such things on test releases such as
> > FC4T3 ??
> > ie Use things like dag's FC3 i386 repo on a
> > FC4T3 x86-64 built machine.
> >
> > I can force i386 and 3 in the dag.repo say
> > baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os
>
> Okay, first you install a test release, and now you are wanting to use
> FC3 packages with it? : ) It *may* work to install some FC3 packages
> if things have not changed significantly. But it is probably not safe
> to have an FC3 repo on an FC4T3 machine. Others may feel differently,
> so feel free to comment. This just seems to be asking for trouble.
> If you really want to use those packages, I suggest keeping the repo
> disabled, like I said above.
>
> > but not for mirrors as the $basearch variable does not appear
> > it must be passed some other way as the $ARCH variable appears in the
> > mirror list
> > mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-
> > $releasever
> >
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/$ARCH/os/
>
> See my advice above. You can have multiple baseurls. Just list them
> on separate lines, with the first only having the "baseurl=", if I'm
> remembering correctly.
>
> > Any advice gratefully received
> >
> > John
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Jonathan
>
Hi Jonathan
Many thanks for the detailed reply
I have cut and pasted/edited additional disabled repos with releasever
and basearch hardcoded and can select as required.
You are right the dependences when trying to install FC3/i386
give sufficient grief that the wait for FC4 proper seems short.
Many/some of the libs have been upgraded and chasing them all
for a test machine is just not worth it.
Just out of interest a typical output is shown below
Thanks again
John
The --enable less the repo really does work!!
[root@shuttle64 ~]# yum --enable freshrpms_3_i386 --enable base_3_i386
--enable extras_3_i386 install totem-xine
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
extras_3_i386 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
freshrpms_3_i386 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
base_3_i386 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
.
.
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libdbus-1.so.0 is needed by package nautilus-
cd-burner
Error: Missing Dependency: libFLAC.so.4 is needed by package xine-lib
Error: Missing Dependency: libhal.so.0 is needed by package nautilus-cd-
burner
Error: Missing Dependency: libexif.so.9 is needed by package nautilus
[root@shuttle64 ~]# rpm -qa|grep -i dbus
dbus-x11-0.33-2
dbus-0.33-2
dbus-python-0.33-2
dbus-devel-0.33-2
dbus-glib-0.33-2
dbus-glib-0.33-2
dbus-0.33-2
[root@shuttle64 ~]# rpm -ql dbus-0.33-2 |grep -i libdbus
/usr/lib64/libdbus-1.so.1
/usr/lib64/libdbus-1.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.1
/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.1.0.0
[root@shuttle64 ~]#
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