118795 – ebuild pgk rpm tries to install in i386 on AMD64

Bug 118795 - ebuild pgk rpm tries to install in i386 on AMD64

Summary: ebuild pgk rpm tries to install in i386 on AMD64

Status:	RESOLVED LATER

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Keywords:	NeedPatch

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Reported:	2006-01-12 10:40 UTC by Adam Carheden
Modified:	2008-03-02 15:58 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Adam Carheden 2006-01-12 10:40:07 UTC

Portage is so cool because I can send packages to those rpm people who can't get stuff to compile on their systems. Unfortunatly on AMD64, ebuild PKG rpm gives me this error:

install: cannot stat `/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/Xaw3d-1.5-r1.i386.rpm': No such file or directory

This isn't actually a big deal because it does successfully dump the x86_64 rpm in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/, but it would be nice if ebuild didn't exit with error.

Comment 1 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-12 11:00:58 UTC

rpm support is limited to x86 only at this time. The entire idea of rpm support 
for portage needs to be re-thought about then recoded. The rpms it does produce 
are less than ideal on an rpm based distro.

Comment 2 Adam Carheden 2006-01-13 08:16:24 UTC

Ya, but it's really cool to say, "What? It didn't compile for you on FC4? I had no problems on Gentoo. Let me just whip up a quick RPM for you..." Granted my package had no dependencies, but it worked fine. All hail the quick little penguin. :)

Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-03-02 15:58:54 UTC

Nt sure if anyone on the dev side is actually interested in RPM support.