Bug 190490 - Anaconda allows installation from wrong architecture tree
Summary: Anaconda allows installation from wrong architecture tree
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Cantrell
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Reported: 2006-05-02 21:00 UTC by Aleksandar Milivojevic
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-03-15 17:57:28 UTC
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Description Aleksandar Milivojevic 2006-05-02 21:00:03 UTC 
Description of problem:
Let say I'm doing network installation and my directory tree on install server
looks like this:

/install/rhel4/os/i386
/install/rhel4/os/x86_64

Now, if I use x86_64 CD/DVD to boot, but by mistake point Anaconda to i386 tree,
it will happily install OS from i386 tree.  Not really sure if this should be
allowed.  If nothing else, it could easilly break postinstall script that might
detect they are being run on 64-bit system (which in turn can play havoc on the
final installation).

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Comment 1 David Cantrell 2007-03-15 17:57:28 UTC 
That is how multilib works in RPM.  Can't fix this.
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