[Yum] yum is trying to update an i586 with i686 packages

Garrick Staples garrick at usc.edu
Thu Sep 18 20:13:47 UTC 2003


On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:31:51PM -0400, seth vidal alleged:
> On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 14:37, Garrick Staples wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >    Using 1.0.3 with Mandrake 8.2 on a normal i586 Pentium.  For some
> > reason 'yum update' is trying to install i686 packages.  'uname -m'
> > correctly reports "i586".
> > 
> > yum.conf at http://sol.usc.edu/~garrick/yum.conf
> > 'yum -d 6 update' at http://sol.usc.edu/~garrick/yum.out
> > 
> 
> archscore is reporting that this system would be most happiest with the
> i686 binaries.
> 
> So something is up there.
> 
> If you'd rather that this not happen set exactarch=1 in [main] in your
> config file.

I should have mentioned that I thought of that, but figured I should
still report this bug.

I guess archscore is part of rpm-python, so that bug is outside of yum.




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