Bug 253517 - rpm macro %{_sysconfdir} points to /usr/etc rather than /etc
Summary: rpm macro %{_sysconfdir} points to /usr/etc rather than /etc
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 211119
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rpm
Version: 5.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Panu Matilainen
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Reported: 2007-08-20 12:22 UTC by David Blundell
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-08-20 12:34:07 UTC
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Description David Blundell 2007-08-20 12:22:30 UTC 
Description of problem:
When the x86_64 release of RHEL 5 is installed on a Xeon EM64T box, the rpm
macro %{_sysconfdir} points to /usr/etc rather than /etc This causes RPMs to be
built incorrectly.  This can be checked by the command

"rpmbuild --showrc | grep _sysconfdir.*etc"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.4.2-37.el5

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install x86_64 release of RHEL4 on a Xeon EM64T box
2. use rpmbuild
  
Actual results:
%_sysconfdir is set to /usr/etc causing RPMs to build incorrectly

Expected results:
%_sysconfdir is set to /etc causing RPMs to build correctly

Additional info:
The cause of the problem is that the arch in /etc/rpm/platform is set to
"ia32e-redhat-linux" which causes the system to look in /usr/lib/rpm/ia32e-linux
for macro details.  The fix is to either change the arch in /etc/rpm/platform to
"x86_64-redhat-linux" or "ln -s x86_64-linux /usr/lib/rpm/ia32e-linux"
Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2007-08-20 12:34:07 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 211119 ***
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