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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?

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  • If memory serves, Fedora builds almost (if not) all its packages for all its supported platforms. I'm not sure why you'd need to search. – HalosGhost Jul 16 '14 at 16:13

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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.arch

For 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.
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Timothy Martin
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  • Unfortunately, this doesn't solve the "wrong architecture" issue -- even though I've added a repository entry for a 64-bit only repo to my 32-bit machine, and set 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. – Coderer Jul 17 '14 at 09:45
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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

Example

$ 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
....

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