On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:32:55 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Many ppc64 rpms are located inside the normal ppc repository. And the ppc64 > > repository itself contains only one singel rpm. Is this indended?
Clearly wrong. Only the noarch pkgs went on the ppc64 repos. > The first is afaik intended, as ppc64 just like x86_64 is > biarch/multilib arch; PPCs system will just ignore the ppc64 packages. > It's the same in Fedora; see > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/ppc/ > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/ppc/os/Packages/ > > > The latter IMHO is not intended, but likely the way the push scripts > from Extras/EPEL work/are designed. Fedora at least ships the ppc64 rpms > in a dedicated repo as well: > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/ppc64/ > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/ppc64/os/Packages/ > > dwmw2, mschwendt? It's old "basearch" code that is broken. :( "cvs up Push.py", please. ppc64 was not supported in Fedora Extras and isn't used in EPEL either.
