On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:56 -0400, Christopher Allen Wing wrote: > The default behavior of yum when doing an install on a biarch system is to > install both packages (the main arch and the compatibility arch), e.g. > running 'yum install libfoo' will install both: > > libfoo.i386 > libfoo.x86_64 > > > This is annoying and contrary to, e.g. the way the Red Hat installer > works. Not for loooooooooong. :) > This doesn't affect upgrades; when 2 arches of the same package are > installed, both will be upgraded as usual. It also doesn't prevent a i386 > package from being installed, for instance, if no x86_64 package by that > name exists. It also doesn't change dependency resolution, so if the i386 > package is actually required by something else, it will still be > installed. And it completely runs contrary to: yum install foo* b/c now it won't install foo* that _can_ be installed. it will only install foo* of the multilib arch. not exactly obvious behavior is it? -sv
