[arm] Mageia arm chroot

[fedya]

Hi.
i'm trying to build mageia arm chroot
with this command

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sudo urpmi.addmedia --distrib --urpmi-root /home/user/mageia/rootfs/ http://packages.rtp-net.org/mageia/1/armv5tl/

But faced with error

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getting exclusive lock on urpmi
retrieving media.cfg file...
retrieved   media/media_info/media.cfg
skipping non compatible media `core/release' (for armv5tl)
skipping non compatible media `debug/core/release' (for armv5tl)
skipping non compatible media `../../SRPMS/core/release' (for armv5tl)
unable to add medium
unlocking urpmi database

What's wrong why chroot can not be installed?

[wintpe]

for some reason your urpmi is using the rpm database of the host system, and its incompatible, as its an x86 system.

would think you need a private rpm database for the chroot env.

so see if there is a way to redefine the rpm database it uses, and set one up.

the other option of course is to skip the rpm database entirly, and just install the files from the RPM's in the path you want.

you can do this by running

rpm2cpio XXXXXXXXX.rpm|cpio -id (do this in the destination directory, otherwise it might overright your OS)

the core of an RPM is cpio, so it does not take much to extract the files in it.

but you will not be able to remove the rpm's with rpm -e or use any rpm commands to query whats installed.

it also wont run any pre, post, scripts.

you can do this manualy by extracting the spec file and examining it.

rpm --scripts -qp xxxxxxxxxxxxx.rpm > temp.spec

ls, rm, mv will be your only options.

regards peter