weird yum update

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 20:00 -0500, Jason Powers wrote:
> I'm trying to install fc3 x86_64 on my athlon64 at home. Installation 
> goes ok, still working on the Nvidia 6800GT drivers, but everything else 
> works well. So basically the first thing I do is check the repo 
> directory and then run "yum -y update" to get the system up to date.
> 
> It runs through the headers and such, then shows the list of updates, 
> then right before it starts grabbing the packages, I see this:
> 
> Other Transactions:
>    Obsoleting: boost.i386 0:1.31.0-9 with boost.i386 0:1.32.0-1.fc3
>    Obsoleting: boost.x86_64 0:1.31.0-9 with boost.i386 0:1.32.0-1.fc3
>    Obsoleting: boost-devel.x86_64 0:1.31.0-9 with boost.i386 0:1.32.0-1.fc3
> 
> 
> Does it make sense that it seems to be replacing the x86_64 version of 
> boost with the i386 one?

That is not obsoleting the x86_64 in favor of the i386 version.
It is obsoleting boost......period.....

The i386 version is also obsoleted (see your first line above) and
anyone who does an initial update is likely to see a similar message.  I
see that every time I do an install then update.

> 
> It grabbed boost-1.32.0-1 for both i386 and x86_64 as the first two 
> packages it downloaded, I'm just not sure if it's about to overwrite the 
> 64bit with the 32bit version.
> 
> Jason Powers
>