[Yum] installing multiple arches

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 16:38 -0500, Evelyn Brengle wrote:
> I am still having multilib problems on fedora 9.
> yum-3.2.16-2.fc9.noarch
> python-2.5.1-25.fc9.ppc
> 
> I have an rpm with two arches: foo.ppc and foo.ppc64.
> In my yum repository, they are both default installs.
> I need both of them to install.
> 
> I set multilib_policy=all in my yum.conf file, 
> Now, instead of installing only the ppc rpm,
> the ppc64 rpm is installed instead.
> 
> Putting some prints in yum/__init__.py, it seems to be 
> the call the packagesNewestByName that is causing this.
> Here is the output of my prints:
> isMultiLibArch=1
> multilib_policy=all
> before call to packagesNewestByName, pkgs= , 
> after call to packagesNewestByName, pkgs= 
> Then foo.ppc64 installs, and foo.ppc does not. 
> 
> Is there something else I need to set? Am I perhaps doing something
> wrong?
> 
> Thank you for your help.

Yah, that's the problem - it's a bug in 3.2.16 - it's been fixed in git
and will be out in the next yum release.

-sv