Bug 580973

Summary: rpm i386 on x86_64 kernel confused about arch
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Tom Marshall <tdm.rhbz>
Component: rpmAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 5.5CC: ffesti
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Report kernel arch for ix86 rpm under x86_64 kernel none

Description Tom Marshall 2010-04-09 16:27:01 UTC 
Description of problem:

When running a 64-bit kernel under a 32-bit install, rpm may report either i386 or x86_64 as the build arch, depending on the specific CPU:


Intel Celeron family 15, model 2: build arch i386, install arch pentium4.

AMD Opteron family 15, model 37: build arch i386, install arch athlon.

Intel Xeon family 6, model 15: build arch x86_64, install arch x86_64.

AMD Opteron family 16, model 4: build arch i386, install arch athlon.


What is the intended behavior?
Comment 1 Tom Marshall 2010-08-06 19:42:23 UTC 
Created attachment 437247 [details]
Report kernel arch for ix86 rpm under x86_64 kernel
Comment 2 Florian Festi 2013-03-15 11:32:04 UTC 
Running 32bit userland with 64bit kernel is not a supported configuration for RHEL5. RPM still should handle the situation better. Moved the issue to the upstream bug tracker:
http://rpm.org/ticket/861

Thanks for reporting!