On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:33:31 +0100 > Iain Arnell <iarnell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Marcela Maslanova >> <mmaslano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > This should test whether yum can handle lower version in main and >> > higher in separated package (Module::Build). The update of packages >> > went fine if 'Obsoletes' is used in new package [2]. >> >> Aha. Of course - 'Obsoletes' is necessary, but not why you think. The >> problem here is that we may be moving from arch-dependent packages >> (i.e. 1:perl-Module-Build-0.3500-110.fc13.x86_64) to noarch packages >> (i.e. 1:perl-Module-Build-0.3603-1.perltestrepo.noarch). Even though >> ENVR is higher in the noarch package, yum wont automatically update >> from arch-dependant to noarch. > > That shouldn't be the case any more: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502401 > (fixed in F-11, at least it's supposed to be) Hmmn. Confirmed - I have no problem with yum updating from current 1:perl-Pod-Simple-3.07-87.fc12.x86_64 in F12 to locally built 1:perl-Pod-Simple-3.13-1.fc12.noarch. Are you running some old version of yum Marcela? -- Iain. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
