Package in ~/public_rpms seems to be ignored - unclear why...

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Wednesday 13 August 2008 07:10:38 pm Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
> >> Hints? Where to look next?
> >
> > did it go from arch specific to noarch? if so thats the problem.  remove
> > completely the arch specifc ones.  its a old bug in yum fixed quite
> > awhile ago now.
>
> Thanks for the hint - just checked - that's not the case. Was always
> noarch. These are all the rpms in Crank:
>
> /home/cscott/public_rpms/joyride/ds-backup-0.7-1.olpc3.src.rpm
> /home/cscott/public_rpms/joyride/ds-backup-client-0.7-1.olpc3.noarch.rpm
> /home/cscott/public_rpms/joyride/ds-backup-server-0.7-1.olpc3.noarch.rpm
> /home/mstone/public_rpms/joyride/ds-backup-0.6-1.olpc3.src.rpm
> /home/mstone/public_rpms/joyride/ds-backup-client-0.6-1.olpc3.noarch.rpm
> /home/mstone/public_rpms/joyride/ds-backup-server-0.6-1.olpc3.noarch.rpm
try putting rpms there :)
file /home/cscott/public_rpms/joyride/ds-backup*
/home/cscott/public_rpms/joyride/ds-backup-0.7-1.olpc3.src.rpm:           HTML 
document text
/home/cscott/public_rpms/joyride/ds-backup.changes:                       
ASCII text
/home/cscott/public_rpms/joyride/ds-backup.changes~:                      
ASCII text
/home/cscott/public_rpms/joyride/ds-backup-client-0.7-1.olpc3.noarch.rpm: HTML 
document text
/home/cscott/public_rpms/joyride/ds-backup-server-0.7-1.olpc3.noarch.rpm: HTML 
document text
 rpm -qip on the file should give you some good information about the package.

Dennis