> True.. but the man page is a bit unclear about this issue: > > -- > exactarch > 1 or 0 - set to 1 to make yum update only update the architec- > tures of packages that you have installed. IE: with this enabled > yum will not install an i686 package to update an i386 package. Why is that unclear - it means yum will only update pkgx.i386 with pkgx.i386. > This made me think it was more an option to keep you from grabbing > i686/athlon/whatever packages when you only wanted i386 ones. how is noarch different? > > "only update the architectures of packages that you have installed" Of a particular package. across the whole distribution you'll have various archs of packages. -sv
