dependency graph for a x86_64 made on a i386 host architecture?

Jeff Johnson n3npq at mac.com
Wed Nov 8 02:56:06 PST 2006


On Nov 8, 2006, at 2:39 AM, Andreas Bach Aaen wrote:

> Tirsdag 07 november 2006 21:41 skrev Jeff Johnson:
>
>> Simpler is better, add --target=foo, and voila! you are running on
>> the "foo" architecture as far
>> as rpm-4.4.7 is concerned.
>
> Will this mean that I can set the target to x86_64 or even ppc64 on  
> a host
> running i386 ?
> The rpms might not be installable, but I can at least calculate the  
> dependency
> graph (option --urls).
>

Try changing the "cpu-vendor-os" string in /etc/rpm/platform. That
will set the arch for rpmlib (and archscore) purposes.

73 de Jeff




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