> Perhaps alowing always to switching from and to noarch? While > discussing whether i686 is better or worse than x86_64, noarch is > simply not comparable. If two packages with the same NEVR exist, but > are noarch and no-noarch ;), then it is definitely a bug in the repo > and yum should return "Error: hunt and kill the repo maintainer" ;) noarch isn't the hardest case, The one that has been biting users is some arbitrary program going from i386 to i586. Read back through this thread, some. Hard to have your cake and eat it too, without making the code horrible. -sv