[Fedora-xen] Re: rpmbuild environment issues for xen guest?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:15:48AM +0100, Joe Orton wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 05:12:15PM +0200, Paul Wouters wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Joe Orton wrote:
> > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208059
> > >
> > > This report has an x86_64 Xen guest where _libdir is expanding to
> > > /usr/lib; perhaps /etc/rpm/platform needs to be set up by the Xen
> > > guest-creating scripts?  Is this a known issue?
> > >
> > > Paul, if you do:
> > >
> > > echo x86_64-redhat-linux > /etc/rpm/platform
> > >
> > > does that fix the problem?
> > 
> > Hmm.
> > 
> > # more /etc/rpm/platform
> > ia32e-redhat-linux
> 
> Scary! I think this file is created by anaconda.  So if it's wrong in 
> your xen0 and just gets copied as-is to the guests, there is probably 
> something very wrong elsewhere.  (I don't claim to understand how or why 
> this file is used or needed by rpmbuild, sorry)

Yes, this is created by anaconda - it is, however, corect - ia32a is
the canonical architecture for Intel's x86_64 CPUs. The problem is
that the basic RPM / rpmbuild macros for some reason don't treat it
as a 64-bit arch - redhat-rpm-config fixes it for reasons I don't
understand, so I re-assigned it to rpm. 

Dan.
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