Bug 88623

If rpm DO also consider %{arch}, is that possible I can set the "arch" ? I have
an i686 machine, but because I have to share its files (including glibc,
openssl) to i386/i586 machines.
Or how can I tell the installer to treat my i686 machine as i386 machine when I
install the RH7/8/9/ ?
Thanks.

*** Bug 171743 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 176174 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Jeff, since I can't get you to recognize this as a high priority bug on RHEL4
rather than just an enhancement request for RH9, and since you keep pegging them
to this ancient enhancement request with no comment at all: do you have any
plans whatsoever to actually *fix* this issue?  It's been sitting here ignored
for nearly 3 years, and there's no indication that it won't just sit here for
many more.

Every time a new OS update comes out, I end up spending hours on multiple 64-bit
systems working around RPM's failure to distinguish between architectures when
freshening packages, going through the update list painstakingly to make sure I
don't end up with a broken or nonfunctioning system when a 32-bit package
erroneously replaces its installed 64-bit counterpart.  I think it's obvious
that that's a bug, and it doesn't seem like a very difficult bug to fix.

*** Bug 193304 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to
make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks.

Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc.
They are maintained by the Fedora Legacy project (http://www.fedoralegacy.org/)
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Any bug still open against Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9 at the end of 2006 will be
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Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc.
f you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, you are strongly
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Closing as CANTFIX.

I think CANTFIX is wrong. I'm reopening this bug.

Although this original bug had been filed against older Red Hat Linux versions,
the bug 193304 I had filed shows the issue is still present in Fedora Core 5,
and unless somebody can give an indication that somebody has worked on it, I'm
sure the bug is present in later versions of RPM, too.

Please see bug 199304 for more details.

I'm changing the product and version of this to Fedora Core 5, the version I had
used in bug 193304.

User pnasrat's account has been closed

Reassigning to owner after bugzilla made a mess, sorry about the noise...

Dupe of 171743 and FC5 is EOL...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171743 ***