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

[Joe Orton]

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)

joe