I am working up the rpms I need for my mail server. A number of them I need from epel. For example, amavis-new which is a noarch.rpm.
So I was thinking for starters I would create a repo with just the noarch rpms and then see what I am missing that needs to be built specifically for armv7.
I go to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
and see that the install rpm is:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Huh? noarch? what is going on here?
I go look at an actual repo mirror: http://mirrors.mit.edu/epel/7/
There is no specfic noarch repo.
On 12/30/2015 07:00 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I am working up the rpms I need for my mail server. A number of them I need from epel. For example, amavis-new which is a noarch.rpm.
So I was thinking for starters I would create a repo with just the noarch rpms and then see what I am missing that needs to be built specifically for armv7.
I go to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
and see that the install rpm is:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Huh? noarch? what is going on here?
many release files I know of (epel, elrepo, nux-dextop, gf, even some of the release files needed by CentOS SIGs) are noarch simply because they contain nothing but a bunch of text files ( which in turn happen to contain GPG sigs or repository definitions). If the repo definitions files ( => the URLs) are also independent of the architecture ( by means of using $arch or similar ), there is hardly anything needing to include arch-dependent content, therefore ... noarch
On 12/30/2015 12:16 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
On 12/30/2015 07:00 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I am working up the rpms I need for my mail server. A number of them I need from epel. For example, amavis-new which is a noarch.rpm.
So I was thinking for starters I would create a repo with just the noarch rpms and then see what I am missing that needs to be built specifically for armv7.
I go to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
and see that the install rpm is:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Huh? noarch? what is going on here?
many release files I know of (epel, elrepo, nux-dextop, gf, even some of the release files needed by CentOS SIGs) are noarch simply because they contain nothing but a bunch of text files ( which in turn happen to contain GPG sigs or repository definitions). If the repo definitions files ( => the URLs) are also independent of the architecture ( by means of using $arch or similar ), there is hardly anything needing to include arch-dependent content, therefore ... noarch
When I look at the actual rpms at http://mirrors.mit.edu/epel/7/x86_64/, I see many of them designating x86_64 and many noarch. I obviously do not want to install rpms specifically tagged x86_64; I would think.
So I want to download only those rpms including the string noarch and do my own createrepo for now. I don't see any rsync mirrors, only http for epel7. So I can't try using rsync to get just the noarch rpms. I tried wget, but I can't figure out a wget command that will walk the tree and and get just the noarch.rpm.
I am still working on it, but if anyone can supply me with the command to fetch all the noarch.rpms I will get started on this.
Better if someone else starts the building, and then starts the armv7 build from source of those that are platform specific. Then we turn the whole thing over to the epel team. Also need to do a i386 one....
On 12/30/2015 12:45 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 12/30/2015 12:16 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
On 12/30/2015 07:00 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I am working up the rpms I need for my mail server. A number of them I need from epel. For example, amavis-new which is a noarch.rpm.
So I was thinking for starters I would create a repo with just the noarch rpms and then see what I am missing that needs to be built specifically for armv7.
I go to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
and see that the install rpm is:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Huh? noarch? what is going on here?
many release files I know of (epel, elrepo, nux-dextop, gf, even some of the release files needed by CentOS SIGs) are noarch simply because they contain nothing but a bunch of text files ( which in turn happen to contain GPG sigs or repository definitions). If the repo definitions files ( => the URLs) are also independent of the architecture ( by means of using $arch or similar ), there is hardly anything needing to include arch-dependent content, therefore ... noarch
When I look at the actual rpms at http://mirrors.mit.edu/epel/7/x86_64/, I see many of them designating x86_64 and many noarch. I obviously do not want to install rpms specifically tagged x86_64; I would think.
So I want to download only those rpms including the string noarch and do my own createrepo for now. I don't see any rsync mirrors, only http for epel7. So I can't try using rsync to get just the noarch rpms. I tried wget, but I can't figure out a wget command that will walk the tree and and get just the noarch.rpm.
I am still working on it, but if anyone can supply me with the command to fetch all the noarch.rpms I will get started on this.
Better if someone else starts the building, and then starts the armv7 build from source of those that are platform specific. Then we turn the whole thing over to the epel team. Also need to do a i386 one....
Ah, I got wget at least working:
wget -m -nH --cut-dirs=3 --no-parent -A "*.noarch.rpm" http://mirrors.mit.edu/epel/7/x86_64/
Tomorrow, I will read up on createrepo. It has been years since I have done this. Of course, I would be more than happy for someone else to do this!
On 12/30/2015 07:45 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
When I look at the actual rpms at http://mirrors.mit.edu/epel/7/x86_64/, I see many of them designating x86_64 and many noarch. I obviously do not want to install rpms specifically tagged x86_64; I would think.
So I want to download only those rpms including the string noarch and do my own createrepo for now. I don't see any rsync mirrors, only http for epel7. So I can't try using rsync to get just the noarch rpms. I tried wget, but I can't figure out a wget command that will walk the tree and and get just the noarch.rpm.
I am still working on it, but if anyone can supply me with the command to fetch all the noarch.rpms I will get started on this.
you need to use -A. See https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Types-of-Files.html
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