yum available in armv7hl - arm - Fedora mailing-lists

10 Jul 2011


      Folks,
I would like to let you know that there is now an install of yum in the
armv7hl branch of the Fedora ARM git repo. You can pull this down
(following the bootstrap instructions from the VFAD if you have not done
this bit before) and chroot into it (bind mound /proc also first).
We still need a few things before we can get to mock:
    - a build of the perl XML parser. I started, but it's late and I
promised I wouldn't work on the weekend but did anyway. The build I did
wound up installing in an incorrect prefix because our RPM doesn't know
about the perl macros. I thought I had fixed but I'll get to it later.
    - a build of "usermode". Unfortunately, this package follows the
growing trend of bloated dependency on lots of stuff for core packages
(I hope to $DIETY that we don't have to bootstrap an architecture from
scratch 10 years from now). I think we can do a hacked up build without
any of the subpackages that just has the bare minimum for mock. Or
rebuild mock in whatever way we need to remove usermode from it.
I /hope/ after we have those two, we get a working mock next week.
That's still far from being able to rebuild everything properly since
we're missing dependencies left, right, and center, but we progress.
Jon.
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bash-4.2# yum
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C
You need to give some command
Usage: yum [options] COMMAND
List of Commands:
check          Check for problems in the rpmdb
check-update   Check for available package updates
clean          Remove cached data
deplist        List a package's dependencies
distribution-synchronization Synchronize installed packages to the
latest available versions
downgrade      downgrade a package
erase          Remove a package or packages from your system
groupinfo      Display details about a package group
groupinstall   Install the packages in a group on your system
grouplist      List available package groups
groupremove    Remove the packages in a group from your system
help           Display a helpful usage message
history        Display, or use, the transaction history
info           Display details about a package or group of packages
install        Install a package or packages on your system
list           List a package or groups of packages
load-transaction load a saved transaction from filename
makecache      Generate the metadata cache
provides       Find what package provides the given value
reinstall      reinstall a package
repolist       Display the configured software repositories
resolvedep     Determine which package provides the given dependency
search         Search package details for the given string
shell          Run an interactive yum shell
update         Update a package or packages on your system
upgrade        Update packages taking obsoletes into account
version        Display a version for the machine and/or available repos.
Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t, --tolerant        be tolerant of errors
  -C, --cacheonly       run entirely from system cache, don't update
cache
  -c [config file], --config=[config file]
                        config file location
  -R [minutes], --randomwait=[minutes]
                        maximum command wait time
  -d [debug level], --debuglevel=[debug level]
                        debugging output level
  --showduplicates      show duplicates, in repos, in list/search
commands
  -e [error level], --errorlevel=[error level]
                        error output level
  --rpmverbosity=[debug level name]
                        debugging output level for rpm
  -q, --quiet           quiet operation
  -v, --verbose         verbose operation
  -y, --assumeyes       answer yes for all questions
  --version             show Yum version and exit
  --installroot=[path]  set install root
  --enablerepo=[repo]   enable one or more repositories (wildcards
allowed)
  --disablerepo=[repo]  disable one or more repositories (wildcards
allowed)
  -x [package], --exclude=[package]
                        exclude package(s) by name or glob
  --disableexcludes=[repo]
                        disable exclude from main, for a repo or for
                        everything
  --obsoletes           enable obsoletes processing during updates
  --noplugins           disable Yum plugins
  --nogpgcheck          disable gpg signature checking
  --disableplugin=[plugin]
                        disable plugins by name
  --enableplugin=[plugin]
                        enable plugins by name
  --skip-broken         skip packages with depsolving problems
  --color=COLOR         control whether color is used
  --releasever=RELEASEVER
                        set value of $releasever in yum config and repo
files
  --setopt=SETOPTS      set arbitrary config and repo options
Plugin Options: