Bug 445387

Summary: Allow specifying basearch on the command line
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Component: livecd-toolsAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Patch adding --basearch command line argument none

Description Owen Taylor 2008-05-06 16:54:02 UTC 
I wanted to be able to build livecd images for both i386 and x86_64 on an x86_64
machine, and couldn't figure out an easy way to do it (without running
livecd-tools from a chroot), so I came up with the following patch that allows
specifying --basearch=i386 on the command line, overriding the detected value.
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2008-05-06 16:54:02 UTC 
Created attachment 304658 [details]
Patch adding --basearch command line argument
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2008-05-06 17:12:56 UTC 
Just use setarch(8)
  setarch i386 livecd-creator ....
Comment 3 Owen Taylor 2008-05-06 18:30:47 UTC 
Ah. I RTFS'ed and saw it first checking /etc/rpm/platform, but I didn't
realize that /etc/rpm/platform doesn't actually exist on x86_64.