[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Improve multilib and obsoletes handling in YumBase.update

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 12:35 +0100, Florian Festi wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The attached patches improve YumBase.update to handle multilib updates and 
> obsoletes better. This improves several situations:
> 
> Updating noarch to multilib (32 + 64 bit) and vice versa.
> 
> Check obsoletes not only for the updating pkg but also for pkgs obsoleted by 
> the updating pkgs. Also handle noarch <-> multilib transitions in obsoletes 
> better.
> 
okay - I've checked this one in, too. I'm a little leery over some of
the results we might get but looking at it it doesn't look like it'll be
any worse than what we have now. However, I suspect yum 3.2.8 will sit
in f7 and f8 updates-testing for a good while to make sure of it.

Thanks,
-sv