On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 09:15 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> On 06/22/2011 08:28 AM, James Antill wrote:
>
> >> ---> Package glibc-devel.x86_64 0:2.12-1.7.el6 set to be updated
> >> --> Processing Dependency: glibc = 2.12-1.7.el6 for package:
> >> glibc-devel-2.12-1.7.el6.x86_64
> >
> > And this is the latest version available, which is older than the one
> > you have installed ... so yum tries to solve the problem by installing
> > the .i686 version ... but that doesn't work out.
>
> How could that ever work (installing .i686 to fix a .x86_64 dependency,
> in this case "... for package: glibc-devel-2.12-1.7.el6.x86_64")?
> I've been bitten by this problem a number of times. Why should yum
> even consider this?
>
b/c the requirement isn't looking for anything arch specific. It's just
looking for that req.
This would be an argument for %{isa} requirements.
-sv
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