Multiarch crazyiness

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Mon Oct 22 19:14:04 UTC 2007


Le lundi 22 octobre 2007 à 14:56 -0400, Bill Nottingham a écrit :

> One *big* issue with doing this change across the board is that you'll go
> from the repository having:
> 
> - foo.i386 and foo.x86_64
> 
> to:
> 
> - foo.x86_64 and foo-libs.i386 and foo-libs.x86_64
> 
> So, on upgrade, yum will grab foo.x86_64 to upgrade the older install. It
> will then pull in foo-libs.x86_64 for dependencies. Meanwhile, the old
> foo.i386 will remain, often leading to conflicts.

Wouldn't an Obsoletes: foo < current_version fix this? Unless we want to
ship 32bit & 64bit versions of foo in the same repo

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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