On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:08:43 -0400, Mike Bonnet <mikeb(a)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"
-sv