> Makes sense, but isn't incompatible with what I said : If the arch isn't > explicitly given, then exactarch could (should?) be considered. Typically, > if you "yum install" an installonlypkg for which exactarch is true and for > which an arch (to override) isn't given on the command line, then yum > should say that the latest version is already installed even if there is a > more recent package available which is of a different arch, shouldn't it? I > hope this is what you mean by fixing it either way. What would exactarch compare to if nothing else was installed? The right fix is to make sure the behavior is the same for yum 2.1.X as is yum 2.0.X > Thanks for the quick answers, it's the first time I've been using 2.1.x to > upgrade a whole system on a fast (P4) computer, and it does feel much > faster than 2.0.x, unlike on my test PII 400 :-) Icon did some good work this last week to help that problem. In short, yum will parse the xml files and write out a pickle file (if it is run as root) then it will mark the pickle with a checksum So the next time you need to read in that metadata, if the time repodata hasn't changed it will just read in the pickle which is an order of magnitude faster than the xml read-in. :D -sv
