Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>> It's not about the upgrade process. It is only about compare_providers.
>>
>> You have 3 pkgs providing 'foo'
>>
>> foo-1.1.noarch
>> foo-1.0.x86_64
>> foo-1.0.i386
>>
>> Which one do you pick on x86_64 or i686?
>>
>> We weight extra toward pkgs in the same arch as the running system. And
>> then the arch NEAREST to the running arch.
>
> Maybe I'm just being naive, but I'd expect a newer EVR to trump any arch
> weighting.

really?

So if you're on x86_64

and you have foo-1.1.i386 and foo-1.0.x86_64

and you run:

yum install foo

you would expect foo-1.1.i386 to be installed instead of foo-1.0.x86_64?

REALLY?

-sv