seth vidal wrote: >On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 01:25 +0200, Trond Eivind Glomsrod wrote: > > >>Scenario (rhel3, IA64): >> >>package A is installed. It is arch ia64, and version 1.1.0. >> >>In a earlier version, package A was noach. That stopped at version 1.0.7. >> >>Now, when trying to install package A (already installed), it tries to >>install the noarch version - why? Noarch isn't a parallell installable >>multiarch? >> >>The install then fails with a >>Transaction Check Error: package A-1.1.0-1.rhel4 (which is newer than >>A-1.0.7-1.generic) is already installed. >> >>Now, when looking into the code in cli.py, the following looks strange: >> >> if rpmUtils.arch.isMultiLibArch(a2) == >>rpmUtils.arch.isMultiLibArch(pkg.arch): >> comparable.append(instTup) >> >>What's this trying to achieve? Making it possible to update across >>multiple arches? The result here, is that since this test fails (ia64 >>being multiarch, noarch not), nothing ends up being compared to the >>noarch package at all. Which doesn't seem quite right... >> >> > >ah ha >so yum is saying 'noarch is in the line of the 32bit arch for this >multilib platform - we should try to install it, too'. You're right, >though. noarch packages should not be considered when this is going on. > >What ver of yum is this? > > 2.2.1. Same code in 2.3, though.
