Yum update path problem for switchdesk 3.9.8-18 -> 4.0.2-1

[Stanislav Polášek]

seth vidal wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 16:14, Andrew Farris wrote:
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>>Yum did not recognize switchdesk-4.0.2-1 as being a valid update for
>>switchdesk-3.9.8-18 on a Rawhide system updated to the test3 Rawhide
>>freeze.  The newer version was ignored, requiring a rpm -e --nodeps step
>>followed by yum install switchdesk switchdesk-gui.  I am not certain how
>>long this update has been ignored (3.9.8-18 is an FC1 package)...
>>probably as long as there has been a newer version of switchdesk.
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>Did you, perchance, save a debug output of the failure to update? I've
>not seen this problem and I'd be curious to know what was going on
>there.
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>-sv
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Could the culprit be the change of the ARCH tag?
yum list switchdesk:

Looking in Available Packages:
Name                                Arch   Version                  Repo
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switchdesk                          noarch 4.0.2-1                  
development
 
Looking in Installed Packages:
Name                                Arch   Version                  Repo
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switchdesk                          i386   3.9.8-18                 db

s.p.