The latest Darwin OS (7.x) uses a "fat" architecture where both PowerPC (ppc) and Intel (i386) code is in the same binaries, both for programs and for libs/objects. This arch is then used for packaging such RPMS: .fat.rpm See http://www.opendarwin.org/downloads/7.2.1/RPMS/fat/ These fat binaries run on Mac OS X too, even if Apple only ships the Developer Tools for the ppc side of it, the rest are available as part of the Darwin project. See http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/
Created attachment 104000 [details] rpm-4.2.1-fatarch.patch
Added to HEAD and rpm-4_4 branches, should be in rpm-4.4.1-0.6 when built. Thanks for the patch.