[Arm-dev] epel 7 noarch

[Robert Moskowitz]

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....