Axel Thimm wrote: > 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? it's not that simple eg. on our sparc the kernel should remain sparc64.rpm and if it changed to sparc.rpm then the server stops while glibc must be sparcv9.rpm. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
