[Yum] [followup] avoid installing 2 copies of everything multilib

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Aug 23 17:51:57 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 13:44 -0400, Christopher Allen Wing wrote:
> As it turns out, I'm not going to have time to prepare a better patch in 
> the near future. The patch I sent works fine for 'yum groupupdate', and 
> the project that I need yum for will only ever use 'yum groupupdate'.
> 
> Getting the correct behavior for yum install is trickier, because the part 
> of the code I was modifying doesn't have direct access to enough 
> information to make the right decisions.
> 
> 
> Anyway, for reference, the behavior that I'm aiming for (if I do get a 
> chance to work on this again in the future) is:
> 
> 
>  	yum install <name>
>  	yum groupinstall <name>
> 
> should be configurable to only install one arch
> 
> 
>  	yum install name.arch name.exact
> 
> should do what you tell it to (install whatever arch you want)
> 

I understand what you're trying to do. The problem is with the globs.

yum install foo*

Does that mean anything named foo* but only the basearch?
or 
Does that mean ANYTHING named foo* in any arch that can be installed.


-sv





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