yum wont upgrade noarch -> arch-specific

Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com
Mon Apr 9 15:25:42 UTC 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of seth vidal
> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 3:51 PM
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
> Subject: Re: yum wont upgrade noarch -> arch-specific
> 
> On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 16:21 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 15:17 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 02:36:14PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:28:29PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 02:26:08PM -0500, Michael E 
> Brown wrote:
> > > > > > Should have posted this, because I ran it several 
> times while verifying things:
> > > > > > $ sudo yum list firmware-addon-dell
> > > > > [...]
> > > > > > Installed Packages
> > > > > > firmware-addon-dell.noarch               
> 1.2.6-1.fc6            installed       
> > > > > > Available Packages
> > > > > > firmware-addon-dell.x86_64               
> 1.2.10-1.fc6           extras 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Forgive me if you posted this earlier and I missed it 
> or if this 
> > > > > is an insulting question, but: do you have 
> exactarch=1 in your yum.conf?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Had a conversation with seth on irc, and it looks like this is a 
> > > multilib bug.
> > 
> > not a multilib bug - it's a bug in the update-list generation in 
> > rpmUtils.updates.py
> > 
> > it only happens on multilib systems - which, semantically, 
> I think is 
> > different than a multilib bug.
> 
> okay, I think I found it and posted a patch in the bug you opened.

For those playing along at home, the latest patch posted appears to 
fix this for me.
--
Michael




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