[Yum] Yum exactarch flag not working right

[Mark Lane]

On November 17, 2004 05:37 pm, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 14:53 -0700, Mark Lane wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Invert it. yum remove thunderbird
>
> wouldn't you expect it to remove both?
>
> yum install tries to be intelligent:
>  - it installs the highest version available
>  - it installs the best arch w/i the biarch list available
>
That's not what it did. It tried to install both not just the best arch.



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