Description of problem: For instance building of some source rpms fails due to wrong resolution of the _libdir macro in the spec file. I think the problem lies in the wrong platform specification in /etc/rpm/platform which is "ia32e-redhat-linux". However I have installed the x86-64 distribution on a new Macbook with Core 2 Duo processor. It might be a duplicate of the "wrong architecture detected" bug, but I wanted to file it because it concerns RPM. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.4.2-32 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
anaconda sets up /etc/rpm/platform contents, rpm only reads it.
Is this still a problem in F8?
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(In reply to comment #2) > Is this still a problem in F8? Yes. $ cat /etc/rpm/platform ia32e-redhat-linux $ uname -m x86_64 $ rpm --eval "%{_libdir}" /usr/lib64 $ setarch i686 uname -m i686 $ setarch i686 rpm --eval "%{_libdir}" /usr/lib64 Wrong! $ rm /etc/rpm/platform $ setarch i686 rpm --eval "%{_libdir}" /usr/lib Right. This means that setarch i686 rpm --target i386 --rebuild *.src.rpm puts the libraries in the wrong place (/usr/lib64) if /etc/rpm/platform exists with the above contents. What is the point of /etc/rpm/platform?
This is fixed for Fedora 9 as we're no longer writing /etc/rpm/platform