[Yum] multilib system installation

[James Antill]

Piotr Romanus <piotr.romanus at gmail.com> writes:

> After reading YUM FAQ #9 I expected that YUM would install i386 and
> x86_version of foo - which it did - and i386 and x86_64 version of every
> dependent package - which it DID NOT. None of the i386 dependant packages
> was intalled.

 Yeh, that's not how it works. If you have foo.i386 and foo.x86_64
installed, and you need to update foo.i386 for a dep. then yum will
update both ... but it doesn't install things that aren't needed.

 Probably the easiest solution is to write a yum plugin which hooks
pretransaction, goes through conduit.getTsInfo().getMembers() and then
any package which has another arch. of the same version (which isn't
being installed) is then added.

> I am running yum 3.2.8.

 As Seth said, you want to require at least yum-3.2.19-18.el5 if not
yum-3.2.19-18.el5_3.1 or later.

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James Antill -- james at and.org