On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, seth vidal wrote: > > > > Now, with this out of the way, forgive me for digging a little deeper: the > > > > change is due to a limitation on rpm, right? Couldn't we just fix rpm? > > > > > > yum/apt/up2date. All three of them. > > > > Not apt, I have quite often switched arch with apt. > > As have I - remember all the nptl problems people saw in rhl9-era? A > fair number of those were apt switching from glibc.i686 to glibc.i386 > midstream. > > iirc, panu included an option into apt to protect from that happening. It's on my todo-list, haven't done anything about it yet. Mind you I don't think the exactarch-behavior is necessarily a win-win situation either because it breaks when a package's arch is downgraded on purpose like we all saw with this particular change. Having it as an option is/would be nice though. - Panu -
