[fedora-arm] How do I cross architecture "yum install"?

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Ralph Campbell
<ralph.campbell at broadcom.com> wrote:
> I’m trying to do the equivalent of “yum --installroot=$rootpath
> repository-packages aarch64 install” where aarch64 is a repo pointing to a
> loopback mounted copy of Fedora-Server-DVD-aarch64-21.iso on an x86_64
> system.
>
> The problem is that yum doesn’t seem to have an –ignorearch option.
>
>
>
> How do I work around this?

In short you can't. When installing yum needs to be able to run
pre/post install rpm scripts which run the binaries that have just
been installed so it won't work. You could do it with qemu emulation
of aarch64 on x86.

Peter