[Yum-devel] more future brainstorming

[Sean Dilda]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 11:00 -0500, Sean Dilda wrote:
> 
>>Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>
>>>I still haven't seen a *valid* use for arches in groups.  And yes, I'm
>>>very against this just because the amount of pain that was endured with
>>>the old comps format allowing it.
> 
> 
>>There's only one reasons I want them, and that's to allow me to specify 
>>a group for my x86_64 repo that includes certain 32-bit libraries.  I've 
>>yet to hear of a good solution for this problem that involves any 
>>existing version of yum.
> 
> 
> The comps file format supports the concept of a "biarchonly" group.
> This is a group which is packages for the secondary arch on a biarch
> host.  That's how anaconda presently handles the compat arch groups.

I can deal with 'biarchonly' groups.  However, as Seth said, yum doesn't 
support that yet.  And I don't really consider it a good solution until 
the code actually exists :)