Re: yum + mulitarch + updates

[Nicholas Miell <nmiell comcast net>]

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 08:28 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> I have noticed that when I have package foo-1.0.i386 installed and some 
> other (x86_64) repo has foo-1.1.x86_64 yum updates foo and removes the 
> i386 one.
> (livna mplayerplug-in was it here).
> Updates should not be crossarch a i386 package should only be updated to 
> a i386 one (same for x86_64).
> Any reason for doing this? Or is this a bug thats needs to be filled?
> 

And when OpenOffice finally gets a working AMD64 version, I fully expect
the AMD64 packages to replace the i386 packages when I do a yum update.

Packaging is hard; let's go shopping!

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Nicholas Miell <nmiell comcast net>