Bug 435226 - ia64 was removed from yum's arch.py
Summary: ia64 was removed from yum's arch.py
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: rawhide
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Seth Vidal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: fedora-ia64
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Reported: 2008-02-28 02:56 UTC by Doug Chapman
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-02-28 03:25:14 UTC
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Description Doug Chapman 2008-02-28 02:56:41 UTC 
Description of problem:
yum-3.2.11-1 has broken ia64!!!

in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/arch.py there used to be:

    # itanium
    "ia64": "i686",

which I agree isn't actually correct, yes ia64 _can_ run i686 binaries (in
emulation mode) but this honestly isn't used anymore and requires a closed
source emulator so isn't a good thing for Fedora :)

however, removing this line isn't the right thing to do.  When this was removed
yum was no longer smart enough to know that .noarch packages should be installed.

The correct fix is:

    # itanium
    "ia64": "noarch",


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.2.11-1.fc9


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Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2008-02-28 03:25:14 UTC 
Woohoo, evidence someone uses ia64!

patched upstream will be fixed for 3.2.12
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