Some rpms are not setup to deal with anything but i386 (codeweavers wine rpms 
for instance).  You can add the i586 yourself to the specfile (look at the 
format used for i386 and do exactly the same thing...it has been a while - I 
think it is merely a matter of changing a 3 to a 5  on the exclusive arch 
line :).

This isn't a bug or problem, just a question of how the specfile was written.

On Saturday 08 September 2001 06:21 pm, you wrote:
> I just installed Linux Mandrake 8.1 beta 3 and now rpm gives me the
> following error when trying to rebuild rpms.
>
> rpm -bb --target=i586 specfile.spec
>
> --target=i586: unknown option
>
> I have spechelper installed. Any other ideas on what I need to install?

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