On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 18:07 -0400, Joshua Jensen wrote: > >From /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc: > > arch_compat: x86_64: amd64 athlon noarch > arch_compat: amd64: x86_64 athlon noarch > arch_compat: ia32e: x86_64 athlon noarch > > Doesn't this effectively say that amd64 and x86_64 should play together? It might. But rhpl.arch (which is what rpmUtils.arch is based off of) does not mention it at all like that. so amd64 and x86_64 aren't interchangeable in that sense. -sv