On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:46:12PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > I'm doing an install with anaconda modified to set %_prefer_color to 1 > on ppc64, so that we prefer 32-bit. I expect it to work fine except > for /sbin/ldconfig, which is about the only case where we _do_ want > 64-bit. /sbin/ldconfig doesn't care, 32-bit ldconfig on ppc can handle 64-bit libraries and vice versa, even on i?86 32-bit ldconfig it can handle x86_64 and ia64. > We could perhaps contrive ways to indicate to RPM that we want a certain > flavour of binary to be preferred when both are installed simultanously > -- but I can't see any way to do it which isn't going to be ugly, and > really it's none of RPM's business -- it's the job of yum or the user, > or whatever/whoever _calls_ RPM to make decisions about what should be > installed. But RPM packages can contain hints for yum and other utilities on top of rpm. IMHO that's better than keeping the info in some on the side metadata. Jakub -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
