/etc/rpm/platform for 64bits?

[John Summerfield]

André Costa wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2007 12:06 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
>> André Costa wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> my system is an Intel Core 2 Duo, and I installed x86_64 version of
>>> Fedora 7 from scratch, but my /etc/rpm/platform has:
>>>
>>> ia32e-redhat-linux

I looked at that, and thought, "Intel 32-bit architecture, EMT technology."

>>>
>>> I've read in a lot of places on the net suggestions that it should
>>> contain:
>>>
>>> x86_64-redhat-linux
>>>
>>> So, should I change it?
>> Or simply remove /etc/rpm/platform
>>
>> -- Rex
> 
> Thks for the replies.
> 
> So, is this a bug? Should I file a bug report? What's the purpose of
> the /etc/rpm/platform anyway?

I presume it determines the default/preferred architecture for 
installation and/or building. If it's treated significantly different 
from AMD-64/x86_64, that's a bug.

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Cheers
John

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