Bug 84055 – Should search the /etc/rpm/platform file under the root-dir

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Bug 84055 - Should search the /etc/rpm/platform file under the root-dir

Summary:	Should search the /etc/rpm/platform file under the root-dir

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
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Reported:	2003-02-11 12:08 EST by Enrico Scholz
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:51 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-02-13 11:04:29 EST
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Description Enrico Scholz 2003-02-11 12:08:19 EST

Description of problem:

When using the '--root=...' option, rpm reads the platform-information from the
toplevel /etc/rpm/platform file. This is bad and forces the usage of the
'--ignorearch' switch when installing cross-arch packages.

It would be better when rpm searches the platform-file under the given
root-directory.


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

rpm-4.2-0.65


Steps to Reproduce:
1. D=/foobar
2. mkdir -p $D/var/lib/rpm $D/etc/rpm
3. echo 'arm-unknown-linux' >$D/etc/rpm/platform
4. rpm --root=$D --initdb
5. rpmbuild --rebuild --target=arm foobar.src.rpm
6. rpm --root=$D -U foobar.arm.rpm
    
Actual results:

rpm tells 'package foobar.arm.rpm is intended for a arm architecture'


Expected results:

rpm installs the package

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-02-13 11:04:29 EST

rpm determines arch very, very early so that per-arch
configuration can be determined. There's no easy way to
do this after the chrott(2) in order to support cross-platform
installs.

Try
    --ignorearch  don't verify package architecture

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