> That's what I did using yum on mdk. i586 really is the "best" value for > basearch on mdk. *shrug* Just type it in. > > Hey Seth, > How about making it equal to ``rpm --eval %_host_cpu''? That would give the > correct results on every rpm-base distro/arch combo I can think of. hmm, may be worth considering. need to get that from rpm w/o invoking it as a system call (that's icky) :) -sv