diff -rNu rpm-4.6.0-orig/lib/rpmrc.c rpm-4.6.0/lib/rpmrc.c

--- rpm-4.6.0-orig/lib/rpmrc.c	2009-03-09 21:54:49.000000000 -0500

+++ rpm-4.6.0/lib/rpmrc.c	2009-03-11 12:00:44.000000000 -0500

@@ -763,6 +763,31 @@

     return rc;

 }

+#if defined(__linux__) && defined(__sparc__)

+static int is_sun4v()

+{

+	char buffer[4096], *p;

+	int fd = open("/proc/cpuinfo", O_RDONLY);

+	if (read(fd, &buffer, sizeof(buffer) - 1) == -1) {

+		rpmlog(RPMLOG_WARNING, _("read(/proc/cpuinfo) failed\n"));

+		close(fd);

+		return 0;

+	}

+	close(fd);

+

+	p = strstr(buffer, "type");

+	p = strtok(p, "\n");

+	p = strstr(p, "sun");

+	if (p == NULL) {

+		rpmlog(RPMLOG_WARNING, _("/proc/cpuinfo has no 'type' line\n"));

+		return 0;

+	} else if (strcmp(p, "sun4v") == 0) {

+		return 1;

+	}

+	return 0;

+}

+#endif

+

 #	if defined(__linux__) && defined(__i386__)

 #include <setjmp.h>

@@ -1179,6 +1204,13 @@

 		personality(oldpers);

 	    }

 	}

+	if (is_sun4v()){

+	    if (strcmp(un.machine, "sparcv9") == 0 || strcmp(un.machine, "sparc") == 0 ) {

+	        strcpy(un.machine, "sparcv9v");

+	    } else if (strcmp(un.machine, "sparc64") == 0 ) {

+	        strcpy(un.machine, "sparc64v");

+	    }

+	}

 #	endif	/* sparc*-linux */

 #	if defined(__GNUC__) && defined(__alpha__)

diff -rNu rpm-4.6.0-orig/rpmrc.in rpm-4.6.0/rpmrc.in

--- rpm-4.6.0-orig/rpmrc.in	2009-03-09 21:54:49.000000000 -0500

+++ rpm-4.6.0/rpmrc.in	2009-03-11 11:50:49.000000000 -0500

@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@

 arch_compat: sun4d: sparc

 arch_compat: sun4m: sparc

 arch_compat: sun4u: sparc64

-arch_compat: sparc64v: sparc64

+arch_compat: sparc64v: sparc64 sparcv9v

 arch_compat: sparc64: sparcv9

 arch_compat: sparcv9v: sparcv9

 arch_compat: sparcv9: sparcv8