On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 13:44 -0400, Christopher Allen Wing wrote: > As it turns out, I'm not going to have time to prepare a better patch in > the near future. The patch I sent works fine for 'yum groupupdate', and > the project that I need yum for will only ever use 'yum groupupdate'. > > Getting the correct behavior for yum install is trickier, because the part > of the code I was modifying doesn't have direct access to enough > information to make the right decisions. > > > Anyway, for reference, the behavior that I'm aiming for (if I do get a > chance to work on this again in the future) is: > > > yum install <name> > yum groupinstall <name> > > should be configurable to only install one arch > > > yum install name.arch name.exact > > should do what you tell it to (install whatever arch you want) > I understand what you're trying to do. The problem is with the globs. yum install foo* Does that mean anything named foo* but only the basearch? or Does that mean ANYTHING named foo* in any arch that can be installed. -sv
