rpm.archscore's influence on smart

[Eric MSP Veith]

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Dear List,

I'm having a problem with rpm's .archscore which I don't quite understand.

Normally, I have only repos of type rpm-dir which contain either i686 or 
noarch packages. To save me from the heavy burden ;-) of appending --
target=i686-whatever-linux every time I run rpmbuild, I created 
/etc/rpm/platform with i686-slackware-linux.

rpm.archscore("i686") returns 1 then, and 0 for every other architecture, 
which is right.

Yesterday I added the YUM repo of go-oo to install OpenOffice. Packages 
there are built for i586 and didn't show up at first due to the contents of 
/etc/rpm/platform.

Until here I understand, there rest I don't:

Removing /etc/rpm/platform makes the packages in the Go-OO YUM repo show up, 
but hides all i686 and noarch packages from the rpm-dir repositories. 
archscore() returns 0 for all architectures then.

Putting "i[56]86-slackware-linux" into /etc/rpm/platform leads to 
rpm.archscore() returning 0 for every architecture I query. Still, the Go-OO 
packages (i586) show up, while the rpm-dir repositories show no packages 
anymore, not even the "noarch" ones.

Putting more than one line into /etc/rpm/platform causes smart to segfault. 
:-/

I'm running smart-1.3 from the tarball powered by Python 2.6.3 and RPM 
5.1.9.

- ---%<---
$ uname -im
i686 i386
- --->%---

Can somebody explain Smart's behaviour to me, and how I can use both 
repositories (the Go-OO with i586 and my rpm-dir reposoitories with i686 
packages)?

Thanks alot in advance.

			Eric
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