Bug 435226

Summary: ia64 was removed from yum's arch.py
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Doug Chapman <dchapman>
Component: yumAssignee: Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Doug Chapman 2008-02-28 02:56:41 UTC
Description of problem:
yum-3.2.11-1 has broken ia64!!!

in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/arch.py there used to be:

    # itanium
    "ia64": "i686",

which I agree isn't actually correct, yes ia64 _can_ run i686 binaries (in
emulation mode) but this honestly isn't used anymore and requires a closed
source emulator so isn't a good thing for Fedora :)

however, removing this line isn't the right thing to do.  When this was removed
yum was no longer smart enough to know that .noarch packages should be installed.

The correct fix is:

    # itanium
    "ia64": "noarch",


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.2.11-1.fc9


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Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2008-02-28 03:25:14 UTC
Woohoo, evidence someone uses ia64!

patched upstream will be fixed for 3.2.12