Les Mikesell wrote:
Tom Horsley wrote:On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:47:28 +0100 "M. Fioretti" <mfioretti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:which fundamental defects, sorry?Well, whatever undocumented crap it does that allows both i386 and x86_64 rpms to install "the same" files (which are in fact obviously different) is clearly a wart about the size of the titanic.No, that's a feature and it lets you run packages that haven't been rebuilt for x86_64 and need 32 bit libraries (what, you have a single source for software?).The bug is that it won't easily let you build multiple versions of the same package for testing, etc. and keep them all installed - except for the kernels where somebody noticed the problem and made it special case.
My experience is that I perform an install and then perform an upgrade. The upgrade fails because of the above mentioned conflicts between x86 and x86_64 versions of the same packages. Whether you want to call that a bug or a feature, its a bad user experience.
Andrew Robinson
