On Nov 1, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Rob See wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   I've been using RPM5 on OpenSolaris for a couple weeks now  
> (currently 5.1.4.) I just installed yum aswell. I've run into a  
> problem where yum doesn't think that noarch packages are acceptable,  
> so it ignores them and only displays i86pc packages. I think it gets  
> its list from rpm. I know there used to be some rpmrc code that  
> defined compatible archs, and remapped i86pc to i386.  I'm ok with  
> i86pc staying that way, but I need to find a way to have rpm think  
> noarch is compatible. Any suggestions as to where I should look/what  
> I could patch ?
>

Can you include the exact failure message please?

Note that rpm5 has dependencies on pernerntdirs and symlink end-points
that yum doesn't wish to deal with.

yum is still usable if the parentdir dependencies are stubbed out.

That can be done by suppling the unpackaged directories in
/etc/rpm/sysinfo/Dirnames (and similarly Filelinktos for symlink end- 
points).

Basically what is need is
	mkdir -p /etc/rpm/sysinfo
	rpm -Va --nofiles --orphandirs > /etc/rpm/sysinfo/Dirnames

Using the smart package manager is another alternative to using yum.

73 de Jeff
> Thanks,
> -Rob
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