Bug 217544

Summary:	Wrong platform in /etc/rpm/platform
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Oliver Frommel <oliver>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6	CC:	triage
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Oliver Frommel 2006-11-28 15:19:50 UTC

Description of problem:
For instance building of some source rpms fails due to wrong 
resolution of the _libdir macro in the spec file. 
I think the problem lies in the wrong platform specification
in /etc/rpm/platform which is "ia32e-redhat-linux". However
I have installed the x86-64 distribution on a new Macbook with
Core 2 Duo processor. It might be a duplicate of the "wrong
architecture detected" bug, but I wanted to file it because
it concerns RPM.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.4.2-32

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Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2007-06-27 13:53:02 UTC

anaconda sets up /etc/rpm/platform contents, rpm only reads it.

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2007-11-27 20:59:51 UTC

Is this still a problem in F8?

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 04:59:33 UTC

Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6,
please note that Fedora no longer maintains these releases. We strongly
encourage you to upgrade to a current Fedora release. In order to
refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs
for releases which are no longer maintained and closing them.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle/EOL

If this bug is still open against Fedora Core 1 through 6, thirty days
from now, it will be closed 'WONTFIX'. If you can reporduce this bug in
the latest Fedora version, please change to the respective version. If
you are unable to do this, please add a comment to this bug requesting
the change.

Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled
these issues to this point.

The process we are following is outlined here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp

We will be following the process here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this
doesn't happen again.

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Comment 4 Jim Radford 2008-04-04 19:10:50 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Is this still a problem in F8?

Yes.

  $ cat /etc/rpm/platform
  ia32e-redhat-linux

  $ uname -m
  x86_64

  $ rpm --eval "%{_libdir}"
  /usr/lib64

  $ setarch i686 uname -m
  i686

  $ setarch i686 rpm --eval "%{_libdir}"
  /usr/lib64

Wrong!

  $ rm /etc/rpm/platform
  $ setarch i686 rpm --eval "%{_libdir}"
  /usr/lib

Right.

This means that

  setarch i686 rpm --target i386 --rebuild *.src.rpm

puts the libraries in the wrong place (/usr/lib64) if /etc/rpm/platform exists
with the above contents.  What is the point of /etc/rpm/platform?

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2008-04-04 19:26:33 UTC

This is fixed for Fedora 9 as we're no longer writing /etc/rpm/platform