Re: [Cooker] RPM(s) worst enemy but Mandrake's best friend...

[Bryan Paxton]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Anton Graham wrote:
> Submitted 20-Jun-00 by Bryan Paxton:
> > 
> > This isn't faulty logic, it's fact because I have done it and it still compiled
> > for i586. This is due to poor maintaining of spec files hopefully.
>  
> It has nothing to do with spec files.  It has specifically to do with
> your local RPM configuration.  On my system, I usually have no need to
> build i[34]86 packages and translate any attempt to target to those
> archs to i586.  But, when I rebuilt several Mandrake packages for an
> old 486/120, I simply commented out my buildarchtranslate lines in
> ~/.rpmrc and they built exactly as requested.
> 

heh who said anything about even having that line in your ~/.rpmrc

People do build rpms for themselves ya know  and
don't need to follow mdk specific guidelines.

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