mergerepos of f10 x86_64 release and updates does not contain perl or some other packages?

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:

>
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:08:43 -0400, Mike Bonnet <mikeb at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Steve Traylen wrote:
>>> Note the main box I am working on is 32 bit F10 box which may be
> relevant
>>> and
>>> the reason why only subsequently the i386 build works?
>>
>> You can't use a x86_64 chroot on a i386 box, nothing in the chroot will
>> run.  I suspect rpm is preventing installation of x86_64 packages on a
>> i386 host.
>>
>
> I think it's YUM that does not include the x86_64 in the pkgSack (using
> yum.rpmUtils.arch.getArchList() over rpmUtils.arch.getBaseArch()).
>

yep.
Yum is saying "I'm on i386, I'm going to dump out all these arches which 
are not compatible at all"



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