On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > 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. Yes, I know, but the two different policies (do exactarch or not) apply to either i386/i686/athlon/x86_64 comparisons (glibc) or noarch/rest (kernel-source(code)). So having noarch uncomparable to the true archs solves the issues at hand (e.g. what is in the subject line to this thread :). > Hard to have your cake and eat it too, without making the code horrible. Code is by definition horrible. If it looks good, it doesn't do anything useful. ;) said he and went to hide in the woods with the cake under his arm ... ;) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20040701/649988e1/attachment.bin
