Description of problem:

%_sysconfdir points to /usr/etc on x86_64 platforms
It should point to /etc like it does on other platforms.

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

4.4.2-37.el5

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "rpm --eval %_sysconfdir" on an x86_64 machine.
2. See that the result is "/usr/etc"
3. Run "rpm --eval %_sysconfdir" on an i386 machine.
4. See that the result is "/etc"
5. See that "/usr/etc" is not the same as "/etc"
  
Actual results:

[some-64-bit-machine ~]$ rpm --eval %_sysconfdir
/usr/etc

Expected results:

[some-32-bit-machine ~]$ rpm --eval %_sysconfdir
/etc

Additional info:

This was first reported in RHEL3 as bug 190800.  Of course, that bug stagnated
for years and then was closed by the automatic bot last week.  

From the previous bug, there's an easy fix, but really, there should not be
platform skew to begin with:


-- Additional comment from n3npq on 2006-03-23 15:33 EST --
The %{_sysconfdir} macro is overridden by per-platform macros
    -14: _sysconfdir        /etc

Edit /etc/rpm/platform, and change "ia32e" to "x86_64" is one fix.
Otherwise
    ln -s x86_64-linux /usr/lib/rpm/ia32e-linux

-- Additional comment from tr on 2006-03-24 08:16 EST --
The symlink was what I thought of, too.
I did:
ln -s /usr/lib/rpm/x86_64-linux/ /usr/lib/rpm/ia32e-linux

and now it works:

# rpm --eval %{_sysconfdir}
/etc