macro for showing the arch of packages
~/.rpmmacros
echo %_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch} >> ~/.rpmmacros
command-line
rpm --qf="%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n" -q packagename
setting up a user build environment
As a normal user do the following:
Directories (originally from the courier build documentation)
mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/BUILD ~/rpmbuild/RPMS ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES ~/rpmbuild/SPECS ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS
Modify .rpmmacros to specify where your user build environment is
~/.rpmmacros
echo %_topdir %\(echo \"\$HOME\"\)/rpmbuild >> ~/.rpmmacros
Mike Harris has also put together a package showing how to build RPMS as non-root ![[WWW]](/wiki/rightsidebarsmaller/img/moin-www.png){kind=small}
ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/hacks/
remove all i386 i586 i686 packages from a x86_64 system
yum erase *.i386 *.i586 *.i686
echo "exclude=*.i386 *.i586 *.i686" >> /etc/yum.conf