Re: x86-64 rawhide update obnoxiousness

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On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 23:09 +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 
> > So...am I the only one who regularly runs into trouble trying to follow
> > rawhide on x86-64?  Recent example: an update just failed with:
> >
> > 	Transaction Check Error:   file /usr/share/man/man5/ldap.conf.5.gz from install of openldap-2.2.28-2 conflicts with file from package openldap-2.2.26-1
> >
> > ...and so on.  The problem is always conflicts between the x86-64 and
> > i386 versions of packages.
> 
> > Interestingly, if I do "yum update openldap", it will update the 
> > package for both architectures, and the problem goes away.
> 
> Note that is a really /really/ nasty aspect of yum. It essentially 
> force installs (AFAICT) and clobbers the files which are in both 
> packages. Not a problem if they're arch-independent, but if the 
> packaging error is for an arch-dependent file on or other of the 
> arches will be broken.
> 
> I wish yum wouldn't do force installs, it makes me *very* nervous 
> about using yum on multi-arch machines.
> 

yum doesn't force anything.

there is, at no time, the force options used in yum, at all

where did you get this idea?

-sv


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