Re: Forcing arch (mipseb, sparc, hppa1.1) to something else

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On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:47:41AM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
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> > 
> > RPM "automatically" determines the host architecture type and embeds
> > it in the name of the .rpm file it generates. How can I force the name
> > to be something else? I want packages under HP-UX to have the
> > architecture type "parisc", not "hppa1.1" or "hppa2.0".
> 
> Not that I really know anything about this, but I'd try changing your rpmrc
> file so that there is a definition for parisc, and then rebuilding with
> --target=parisc.  You should be able to take a look and see how to just make
> parisc point to hppa1.1 or hppa2.0, as the case may be.  Later,
> 	Greg

Cool, that work. I missed the --target option.

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albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)