Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > On 10/19/06, Jesse Keating <xxxx> wrote: >> Absolutely not. An end user's multilib capable machine + OS should >> install >> the multilib software by default. An end user shouldn't have to >> figure out >> how to add it after the fact. It should Just Work(tm) for the user. >> There >> should be no problem with the x86_64 and i386 packages being >> installed. If >> there are, like multilib file conflicts, we fix them. > > can yum search for foo and if it finds foo-N-N.x86_64.rpm it downloads > it. If not it will download the 32 bit version. However if it finds > foo-N-N.x86_64.rpm it should not download the 32 bit version (to > prevent conflict). > This is not how yum works, when you say "yum install XXX", then yum will try to install packages that provide XXX in any way, so for example you can say yum install /usr/bin/joe to install joe. When multiple packages's (including multiple archs) match XXX then they all get installed as yum doesn't know which one you want and installing all is better then installing a random one. Now with that said there has been discussion in the past that in the same packages with multiple archs case, that yum should behave different, see the archives. Regards, Hans -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
