From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: By mistake, I said: rpmbuild --rebuild --target x86_86 milter-greylist-1.7.4-1.src.rpm and sure enough, got a package under RPMS/x86_86. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.3.2-21 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpmbuild --rebuild --target x86_86 milter-greylist-1.7.4-1.src.rpm 2. 3. Actual Results: Got a x86_86 package Expected Results: Error message: "No such architecture." Or at least "Can't build for that architecture" Additional info:
you are assuming that there are deep semantic interpretations to rpm's interpretation of arch. this is demonstrably not true, as rpm already has 6 too many ppc* architectures than objectively necessary. so if you want to build for x86_86 (or amd64 or pentium5 or any other arch string), have at!