Michel Alexandre Salim wrote, at 06/08/2010 05:12 PM +9:00: > An LLVM user reported to me a problem updating LLVM (from the version > in F13-updates to the version that is then in Koji), and I suggested > that he filed a bug report. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=600969 > > In the discussion that follows, James Antill diagnosed the problem as > due to llvm-doc being changed to be a noarch subpackage, as supported > by RPM 4.7 and above, and thus when using yum to update from > llvm-2.7-1 (with arched -doc) to 2.7-4 (noarch doc), llvm-2.7-1 causes > llvm-2.7-1.i686 to be pulled in to satisfy the dependencies) > > To reproduce: > - on an x86_64 system, yum install llvm-doc > - Download llvm{,-doc} from Koji > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=176782 > - Try a yum localupdate or a yum localinstall > > The suggested fix by James, and by some folks on #fedora-devel, is to > make the new -doc Obsoletes: the old doc. This, alas, does not quite > work: > > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2236690 > > - Download llvm-2.7-5 from the scratch builds above > - Retry localupdate / localinstall > > the -doc update is considered but then dropped. > > Any idea how to fix this? We should probably add a section to the > packaging guidelines, on how to migrate to noarch subpackages without > breaking upgrade paths. > > Thanks, Looks like that just yum must hanble {i686,x86_64,etc} <-> noarch transition correctly (i.e. I will vote that this is a bug in yum). My recognition is that rpm -Uvh handles this correctly. Mamoru -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
