On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 17:09 +0200, Florian Festi wrote:
> James Antill wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 16:45 +0200, Adel Gadllah wrote:
> >> if cmd[0] == "install":
> >> for userpkg in cmd:
> >> if not re.search("i?86$", userpkg):
> >> exclude.append(userpkg)
> >
> > This is a bit of a hack, and does bad things if you install the plugin
> > on an i386 box. At the very least you want to wrap the whole thing in a
> > test like:
> >
> > if os.uname()[-1] == 'x86_64':
> >
> > ...but while x86_64 is the common platform with multiarch, there are
> > others, and it'd be good if the plugin did the right thing.
>
> The right thing would be to finally fix the multilib behavior of yum... And
> I'd guess that the "update" cases are even more interesting/anoying.
the multilib behavior of yum works correctly, for what it was intended
to do. Also the decisions about multilib and the installation isn't
really just yum's decision. It has to be addressed with the various
distributions in mind, too.
-sv
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