On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 04:20:48PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2007 16:09, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > Can anybody tell me why it wants to pull in the i386 version of
> > gutenprint to replace the x86_64 version of gimp-print-utils? Is there
> > any way to convince it not to do things like that?
>
> By default, if you ask yum to install <package> and <package>.i386 +
> <package>.x86_64 are available, you'll get them both.
You seem to be missing the point. Jonathan did not ask to
"install gutentprint". Look at this output:
gutenprint i386 5.0.0-4.fc7 extras-development 2.7 M
replacing gimp-print-utils.x86_64 4.2.7-24.fc7
and the same gimp-print-utils.x86_64 is "replaced" but x86_64 version
of gutenprint too.
In the past I was complaining about that behaviour and also did not
get very far. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199600
I was told that this is a packaging bug and yum does what it is
supposed to do. I am still not convinced. It is quite clear
that while doing replacements yum has a full information about
architectures involved. If you indeed had installed
gimp-print-utils.i386 too then gutenprint.i386 would show up
in a transaction anyway.
> Those that DO think about it and concienciously
> decide to NOT use that feature of their processor can add "exclude=*.i?86"
> to /etc/yum.conf, as well as yum remove \*.i?86.
This is fine and dandy if you indeed do not have any i?86 packages
on the system; but if you do have some then you cannot use such
exclude. If you happen to have gimp-print-utils.x86_64 _only_ then
you will still aquire unwanted gutenprint.i386, and whatever will
get pulled in by dependencies, unless you are very careful and
you will do explicitely
yum install gutenprint.x86_64
before running the remainder of an update. The command above will
replace gimp-print-utils.x86_64 and extra i?86 packages will be not
added to your system. That is likely too much to ask from
an average user.
Michal
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