Hi, for being able to switch archs to noarch in a yum world, Arjan van de Ven, kernel maintainer at redhat, renamed kernel-source to kernel-sourcecode. I think having to change the name for changing the arch is wrong. The above change will break a lot of documentation and build scripts. Isn't extactarch=0 what this would have fixed this? Why is exactarch defaulting to 1? The only reason I could imagine is that foo-1.2.3-4.bestarch.rpm is to be replaced by foo-1.2.3-5.notbestarch.rpm because foo-1.2.3-5.bestarch.rpm is missing. I'd consider that a repo bug, and would prefer the package to be updated to a inferior arch but a higher EVR. This obviously is not true if the archs have different dependencies like for x86_64 vs i386. But ix86/athlon/noarch and x86_64/norach for instance should be freely interchangeable, or not? What am I missing? Is renaming the kernel-source rpm the only choice Arjan has for changing the arch in yum context? If exactarch=0 is not adequate could yum provide some other mechanism? Thanks! -- 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/20040615/67a45734/attachment.bin
