On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 12:25, javier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, I've found a minor bug on yum, in function getupdatedhdrlist at the > clientStuff module. It only appears for packages with multiple archs, and > I have seen it on `yum list` (probably info and similar commans also), but > it does not interfere with actual install/updating of packages. > > In my case, I have installed glibc for i686, and I get (using repos at DUKE) > are you testing this against the latest daily release? That code got a bit of rework to work out some of the multiarch goofiness. > # yum -d 0 list glibc > glibc i386 2.3.2-27.9.7 updates > > > glibc i686 2.3.2-27.9.7 db what is exactarch set to in your /etc/yum.conf? > The third patch is intended to make simpler the code, but it assumes that for > the nevral which comes from rpm database it also happens that > evr(name) == evr(name,arch) > for any existing arch of the package. Although this is quite sensible and > should > be true, it could produce unexpected results if I've been able to install for > example glibc-i386-2.3.2 and glibc-i686-1.2.2 at the same time. > In this sense, the third patch makes the code less robust, and I'm not sure if > to incorporate it is actually a good idea. In any case, I sent it also. > which means it will cause holy hell to break lose when you put it on an x86_64 system and you could quite realistically have glibc.i686 and glibc.x86_64. take a look at the latest cvs snapshot of yum-2_0_X branch. thanks -sv
