[Yum-devel] new simple "protectyum" plugin

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 22:41 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 07:54:44PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > But, here's the gotcha -- something weird happens on x86_64 -- something I
> > didn't expect. It works perfectly fine on my CentOS 5 test system, but the
> > gotcha happens on my Fedora Rawhide machine. Removing 'basesystem' *doesn't*
> > fail, because for some reason, yum only tries to remove the ix86
> > dependencies, even though
> > 
> >   $ rpm -q --whatrequires basesystem --qf '%{name}-%{version}.%{arch}\n'
> >   glibc-2.6.x86_64
> >   glibc-2.6.i686
> > 
> > Any idea what's going on there?
> 
> I thought this might be a side-effect of exactarch=1, but setting that to 0
> makes no difference. Is this a known bug?

It'd be worth trying with current CVS -- there are some "interesting"
classes of bugs that have been fixed that might manifest like that

Jeremy