[Yum] Yum exactarch flag not working right

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 18:35 -0700, Mark Lane wrote:
> On November 17, 2004 05:37 pm, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 14:53 -0700, Mark Lane wrote:
> > > I noticed a problem installing thunderbird onto my system today using yum
> > > install. It wanted to install both the i386 and x86_64 packages instead
> > > of just the x86_64 package. That makes no sense whatsoever.
> >
> > Invert it. yum remove thunderbird
> >
> > wouldn't you expect it to remove both?
> >
> > yum install tries to be intelligent:
> >  - it installs the highest version available
> >  - it installs the best arch w/i the biarch list available
> >
> That's not what it did. It tried to install both not just the best arch.
> 

you'll note I said w/i the biarch list.

x86_64: x86_64, ia32e, noarch
i386:  i686, i586, i486, i386, noarch

each one of those is a biarch list in terms of how yum is searching
them.

-sv