On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 01:33 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, seth vidal wrote: > > > 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. :) > > Care to elaborate?? it's not news. Yum is being used as the depresolution,etc backend for anaconda. planned for fc5. > No it is not!! At least not to me. Would you please explain what the rules > for determining which arch get installed, are?? If there are i386 and x86_64 > packages in the repo, do they both always get installed?? How does one decide > if there should be one arch or both installed? That's what I'm saying. yum's current default behavior for multilib is install all possible packages in every case. so for packages available for both i386 and x86_64 on an x86_64 it will install both, if possible. I think that's much more consistent than the alternative Christopher was trying to patch in. -sv
