[Fedora-livecd-list] i586 needed, how?

[Jerry Vonau]

Jerry Vonau wrote:
> Warren Togami wrote:
>> anaconda --targetarch=i586 would install i586 packages instead of 
>> i686.  I need chroot-creator to do the equivalent so the resulting 
>> chroot can work on both i586 and i686 clients.  i586 clients are 
>> common with LTSP.
>>
> 
> It broke about the same time the yum back-end came into use.
> 

And I found is my fix (posted to anaconda-devel Oct/07), you'll need to 
update the line numbers.


--- yuminstall.py.orig	2007-10-08 16:03:59.000000000 -0500
+++ yuminstall.py	2007-10-08 21:07:06.000000000 -0500
@@ -900,6 +900,20 @@
                      'system-config-securitylevel-tui']:
              self.selectPackage(pkg)

+    def fake586(self):
+	    ### Jerry's hack ###
+        myarch = rhpl.arch.canonArch
+        log.info("Detected %s as arch", myarch)
+        # now allow an override with targetarch=i586 on the command line
+        if flags.targetarch == "i586":
+            myarch2 = flags.targetarch
+            log.info("Detected cmdline targetarch %s as arch", myarch2)
+        # now make the current install believe it, too
+            for pkg586 in ['glibc.i386', 'kernel.i586']:
+                self.selectPackage(pkg586)
+                log.info("Selected %s for installation", pkg586)
+        ### end ###
+
      def doPostSelection(self, anaconda):
          # Only solve dependencies on the way through the installer, 
not the way back.
          if anaconda.dir == DISPATCH_BACK:
@@ -909,6 +923,7 @@
          self.ayum.dsCallback = dscb

          # do some sanity checks for kernel and bootloader
+        self.fake586()
          self.selectBestKernel(anaconda)
          self.selectBootloader()
          self.selectFSPackages(anaconda.id.fsset, anaconda.id.diskset)