[Yum] Re: package gnome-vfs2 needs gnome-mime-data >= 2.0.0-11

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Nov 7 03:38:16 UTC 2003


> True.. but the man page is a bit unclear about this issue:
> 
> --
> exactarch
>      1  or  0 - set to 1 to make yum update only update the architec-
>      tures of packages that you have installed. IE: with this enabled
>      yum  will not install an i686 package to update an i386 package.

Why is that unclear - it means yum will only update pkgx.i386 with
pkgx.i386.

> This made me think it was more an option to keep you from grabbing
> i686/athlon/whatever packages when you only wanted i386 ones.

how is noarch different?


> 
> "only update the architectures of packages that you have installed"

Of a particular package.
across the whole distribution you'll have various archs of packages.

-sv





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