Re: x86-64 rawhide update obnoxiousness

[Paul Jakma <paul dishone st>]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> Get over it, yum isn't forcing anything, you can't even tell it to 
> force anything! The same thing happens with rpm-cli as well: when 
> you install/upgrade both the i386 and x86_64 packages 
> simultanously, rpm "swallows" file conflicts between multilib 
> packages.

Aha. Thanks for explaining that. I've only ever noticed it with yum 
because yum does multi-lib, and hence it's always been use of yum 
which has lead to file clobbering due to multi-arch packaging errors.

Apologies for maligning yum so. ;)

> Whether that's a sane thing to do is another question.

It's dangerous / not sane IMHO.

The worst case I had was where some key arch-dependent glibc files 
got clobbered (FCtest days) - rescue CD time. I'd really much rather 
have packaging deficiencies get flagged, and have rpmlib (and hence, 
very indirectly, yum) refuse to install them than risk important 
stuff being clobbered.

Could it be changed? :)

regards,
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