Re: install RPMs from 'different' arch?

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 15:14 +0100, Jeroen Janssen wrote:
> I'm trying to install MontaVista Linux 4 Pro RPMs using the FC6
> Anaconda installer.
> 
> The Fedora Core 6 RPMs have the architecture i686 (for the i386 installation).
> However, the MontaVista Linux RPMs (for the generic x86 target) have
> an architecture of x86_586.
> 
> As a result, Anaconda currently 'ignores' all the MontaVista Linux
> RPMs during install (since the architectures don't match).
> 
> Is there a way to 'force' Anaconda to also install the packages for
> the x86_586 architecture? (possibly by 'patching' the yuminstall.py?)

You'll need to adjust the arch handling in yum (rpmUtils/arch.py) as
well as in rpm (see the arch tables in rpmrc) to understand the x86_586
arch.  After doing that, things should largely work afaik

Jeremy