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Description of problem:
On alphas it cannot see the "noarch" packages so it cant work.   
 
Atthach a patch to fix this, tested by more users: 
--- rpmUtils/arch.py.orig    2004-10-31 05:24:17.000000000 +0200 
+++ rpmUtils/arch.py 2005-05-13 11:30:49.000000000 +0300 
@@ -41,7 +41,13 @@ 
     "sparc64": "sparcv9", 
     "sparcv9": "sparcv8", 
     "sparcv8": "sparc", 
-    "sparc": "noarch" 
+    "sparc": "noarch", 
+ 
+    # alpha 
+    "alphaev6": "alphaev56", 
+    "alphaev56": "alphaev5", 
+    "alphaev5": "alpha", 
+    "alpha": "noarch" 
     } 
 
 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. On alphas [eg on AlphaCore-0.9] yum -y update 
   

Additional info:

  As project leader on alpha-core wich is an effort to port fedora core for alpha, kindly   
request to merge this small patch mainline. We prepare ourselfs to push as much 
possible alpha specific patches to Fedora mainline, and expect to push out FC4 too. 
 
  Thanks !