Hi, Seth - I wanted you to know that I've finally had a chance to test the multiarch capabilities of the 20040416 snapshot on some AMD64 boxes running FC1. As far as I can tell, everything works well, and it's a huge relief not to have to handle 32-bit and 64-bit RPMs differently. Thanks for doing the work. The one problem that is left is not with yum itself, but it could be worked around usefully by adding a new feature to yum. Several of the 32-bit packages in FC1 will not install cleanly on a 64-bit system, sometimes with fatal consequences. For example, if I try to install the 32-bit e2fsprogs, rpmlib detects no conflicts, but it chooses to overwrite the 64-bit e2fsprogs binaries in /sbin. The result is that small things like e2fsck suddenly fail to work, which is a bit of a calamity. Other packages have silly problems such as docs not being tagged with %doc, so false conflicts show up unnecessarily. This means that yum can't install those packages. The way I work around these problems at the moment is by installing the offending RPMs with rpm itself using the --excludepath option, like this: rpm -iv --excludepath /sbin /long/path/to/e2fsprogs-[0-9]*.i386.rpm This works by forcing rpm to ignore the offending path, and eliminates both false conflicts and the possibility of overwriting binaries that it shouldn't. So the request I have is this: if you could plumb in support for --excludepath, that would be most excellent. I'll file a bug as a reminder. Thanks again for the multiarch work you've done so far. Yum is already enormously better on AMD64 systems than it was a few months ago! <b
