On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 18:35 -0700, Mark Lane wrote: > On November 17, 2004 05:37 pm, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 14:53 -0700, Mark Lane wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Invert it. yum remove thunderbird > > > > wouldn't you expect it to remove both? > > > > yum install tries to be intelligent: > > - it installs the highest version available > > - it installs the best arch w/i the biarch list available > > > That's not what it did. It tried to install both not just the best arch. > you'll note I said w/i the biarch list. x86_64: x86_64, ia32e, noarch i386: i686, i586, i486, i386, noarch each one of those is a biarch list in terms of how yum is searching them. -sv
