[Yum] Yum exactarch flag not working right

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Nov 18 00:38:11 UTC 2004


>  
> > 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.
> 

and more to the point the option was added b/c sometimes you never want
the opposite to happen by accident.

glibc.i686 -> glibc.i386?

I remember that fun - esp with nptl.
-sv





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