Installing gnome-utils-2.8.0-5 results in the following error to appear in the %post script: /usr/bin/update-gtk-immodules: line 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gtk.immodules: No such file or directory This comes from the fact that /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/ does not exist on my system but /etc/gtk-2.0/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/ does. A bit of googleing turned up the thread at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-June/msg00987.html, which does talk about this problem. Specifically https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-June/msg01043.html and https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-June/msg01045.html from Dan Williams do explain the problem. I thought this was fixed for Fedora, shouldn't this be true for RHEL4 as well?
A bit of looking through the specfiles shows the following mismatch: The gtk2 specfile gets the directory name by taking the %{_host} variable into account: # Deriving /etc/gtk-2.0/$host location # NOTE: Duplicated below # # autoconf changes linux to linux-gnu case "%{_host}" in *linux) host="%{_host}-gnu" ;; *) host="%{_host}" ;; esac This results in /etc/gtk-2.0/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/ being created. The gnome-utils (and other packages as well) gain the same data by callling: concatting: %{_arch}-%{_host_vendor}-%{_host_os} %{_arch} however is i386 while %{_host} is i686, thus the error occurs.
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