yum + mulitarch + updates

[dragoran]

Nicholas Miell wrote:
> 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!
>
>   
thats a special case...
but updating crossarch without even tell the user may break working 
setups very easy