On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:53:00PM -0700, Mark Lane alleged: > I noticed a problem installing thunderbird onto my system today using yum > install. It wanted to install both the i386 and x86_64 packages instead of > just the x86_64 package. That makes no sense whatsoever. > > I have exactarch=0 so I can install i386 packages if I wish but if I don't > specific the arch it should install the x86_64 package because my system is > x86_64. It definitely shouldn't be installing both. exactarch is for updates, not installs. > My recommendation is to deprecate exactarch and to have yum work the following > way. > > 1) if you update packages that in installs the same arch(es) as is already > installed. This is exactarch=1. The option was added precisely because sometimes you need to the opposite. -- Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator University of Southern California -------------- 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/20041117/5d2ab179/attachment-0001.bin
