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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
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