Re: Fedora -> Fedora cross binutils/gcc/gdb packages

[Roland McGrath <roland redhat com>]

> There is a script called repack_cross.pl which can convert a target
> binary RPM to a noarch RPM with all files moved to
> /usr/$target/sys-root/, and a set of such pre-generated noarch RPMS
> is included in the abovementioned repository (and pulled in when
> you install the cross-compiler.)

Is there a benefit to this approach vs rpm --root /usr/$target/sys-root
or something along those lines?  It would be nice if all you needed were:
  yum --installroot=/usr/$target/sys-root --arch=$arch groupinstall Development


Thanks,
Roland