yum wont upgrade noarch -> arch-specific

Michael Schwendt mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de
Wed Apr 11 09:42:53 UTC 2007


On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:52:40 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:32:09AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > Highest EVR wins version comparison and is published. Older EVR are
> > excluded and not published. So, the 1.2.11-1.fc6.1.noarch won't make it
> > into the repo, since the 1.fc6.2 release is newer. And for i386 that would
> > result in another switch, back from noarch to i386.
> 
> Highest EVR in which locale ?

Whatever locale may be considered by rpm.labelCompare().
If its results are locale-dependent, RPM has a big problem.




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