[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Fix bugs where we want to install old versions of multiarch packages, which just upsets everything.

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, James Antill wrote:

> This is mostly a revert of:
>
> commit f6317aabb2734357311b6103286a76054c3cd0e9
> Author: James Antill <james at and.org>
> Date:   Sat May 31 17:08:44 2008 -0400
>
> We want to keep other arches in the multilib_policy=all case. bug#449056
>
> ...but that was because of the confusing name, and the fact we had
> another bug which caused the problem, which we fixed a few weeks later:
>
> commit 40471d1d681f62415487def517ac90f253fafa9b
> Author: James Antill <james at and.org>
> Date:   Tue Jun 24 17:21:26 2008 -0400
>
>      Fix packagesNewestByName() to use comparePoEVR as pkg.__cmp__ uses
> .arch in
>        thus we'd only get one pkg from the alph sorted arch.
>        kind of a weird interface, not quite the "same" as
> packageNewestByNameArch
>
> ...with that fix I believe the original bug#449056 wouldn't have
> happened.


Please tell me we have a testcase for this?

-sv