hai, i did went to that site, http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/multi-arch.html but i couldnt find the file rpmrc in the etc dir. i could only find these files in /etc/rpm macros.prelink, macros.specspo, macros.up2date and platform. i did locate rpmrc and found it in the /usr/lib/rpm/ dir. i modified the rpmrc so that it only contains the following:- # Values for RPM_OPT_FLAGS for various platforms optflags: i686 -O2 -g -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 # Canonical arch names and numbers arch_canon: i686: i686 1 # Canonical OS names and numbers os_canon: Linux: Linux 1 # For a given uname().machine, the default build arch buildarchtranslate: osfmach3_i686: i386 # Architecture compatibility arch_compat: i686: i586 buildarch_compat: i686: i586 macrofiles: /usr/lib/rpm/macros:/usr/lib/rpm/%{_target}/macros:/etc/rpm/macros.*:/etc/rpm/macros:/etc/rpm/%{_target}/macros:~/.rpmmacros then i retried the "rpmbuild -ba samba.spec". then i got a successfull rpm in the i686 dir. i remove the prev samba pakage using apt-get, then reinstall it manually. using the "rpm -Uvh *samba*.rpm" command. im kinda confuse here abit i have to put my original rpmrc back in order to install the nautilus etc that were removed with the prev samba-i386 package. error output shown below; [root@xxxx rpm]# apt-get install nautilus Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: nautilus-cd-burner (2.6.0-2) The following NEW packages will be installed: nautilus (2.6.0-4) nautilus-cd-burner (2.6.0-2) 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/4085kB of archives. After unpacking 11.9MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Checking GPG signatures... Committing changes... Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package nautilus-cd-burner-2.6.0-2 is intended for a i386 architecture package nautilus-2.6.0-4 is intended for a i386 architecture E: Error while running transaction is there any other solution that i could use? so that i dont have to recopy back the original rpmrc files. if i build with the original rpmrc files, i could only make the rpm in the i386 folder. the reason i wanted to recompile was to optimize the samba for my dual xeon procs :) and this was my first try at recompiling using source RPM's. ps! if someone suggest that im better off using gentoo distribution, sorry i dont have all day to recompile the whole os from scratch for my specific proc arch, i just need some of the packages to be optimize only:)
