[Fedora-livecd-list] F9-x86_64: setarch i686 not working anymore?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 10:41 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> Am Samstag, 6. September 2008 schrieb Jeremy Katz:
> > Also, 'setarch i686 uname -m' should give basically the same information
> > for what arch is used
> 
> The output of this is the correct "i686". 
> 
> I'm not sure about this but I think this behaviour was introduced by 
> yum-3.2.19. And maybe it's related that commands like "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 
> yum ...." are also not working anymore.

What's the output of
 i686 python -c 'import rpmUtils.arch ; print rpmUtils.arch.getBaseArch()'

Also, make sure you don't have an /etc/rpm/platform as that overrides anything from uname()

Jeremy