[Yum] Yum exactarch flag not working right

[Garrick Staples]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:53:00PM -0700, Mark Lane alleged:
> 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.
> 
> I have exactarch=0 so I can install i386 packages if I wish but if I don't 
> specific the arch it should install the x86_64 package because my system is 
> x86_64. It definitely shouldn't be installing both.

exactarch is for updates, not installs.

 
> My recommendation is to deprecate exactarch and to have yum work the following 
> way.
> 
> 1) if you update packages that in installs the same arch(es) as is already 
> installed.

This is exactarch=1.  The option was added precisely because sometimes you need
to the opposite.


-- 
Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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