I'm trying to grab some packages from a yum server with yumdownloader. I can pass the --archlist= argument to grab packages for a different architecture -- I need to in this case, as the target machine is running a 64-bit OS and my machine is 32-bit.
This works great, but yum search does not have a similar argument, as far as I can tell. Is there any way to do wildcard search for the "wrong" architecture?
You can use the command line tool repotrack to download everything required by a given package. It purely looks at the repos so will download everything, regardless if it's already installed or not.
repotrack - track a package and its dependencies and download them
$ repotrack -a x86_64 -p . vim-enhanced Downloading acl-2.2.51-10.fc19.x86_64.rpm Downloading akmod-nvidia-331.67-1.fc19.x86_64.rpm Downloading akmod-nvidia-173xx-173.14.38-3.fc19.x86_64.rpm Downloading akmod-nvidia-304xx-304.121-1.fc19.x86_64.rpm Downloading akmods-0.5.1-3.fc19.noarch.rpm .... It appears there is indeed no architecture option to use with yum search. When I need to search by architecture I find yum list to be valuable though package descriptions are not available.
This is from the man page for yum:
SPECIFYING PACKAGE NAMES
A package can be referred to for install,update,list,remove etc with any of the following:
name name.arch name-ver name-ver-rel name-ver-rel.arch name-epoch:ver-rel.arch epoch:name-ver-rel.archFor example:
yum remove kernel-2.4.1-10.i686
Otherwise you could search like this:
yum search package | grep your_desired_architecture ## i386, x86_64, noarch, etc. 
exactarch=0, yum list ImageMagick.x86_64 (for example) returns no hits. It works from a 64-bit machine, but not from a 32-bit machine.