On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 17:07 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > Currently on multiarch systems, you can end up getting a new arch of a > package pulled in if it's done via an obsolete rather than an update > (rh#301661). The attached patch is a first crack at making the behavior > for obsoletes match that of updates. Best way to make clearer is > probably an example... > > On your x86_64 system, you removed all i386 packages. Now, there is a > new NetworkManager package which obsoletes dhcdbd. The repository > contains NetworkManager.i386 and NetworkManager.x86_64. With the > current code, you end up with both x86_64 and i386 packages installed. > With the attached patch, you'll only get NetworkManager.x86_64. > > I've double checked that arch changing works (ie, NetworkManager.i386 is > the only thing in the repo and it obsoletes dhcdbd.x86_64) and I can't > see any reason this would break. > > Jeremy
The patch looks fine to me, the only thing that hurts my eye is 'archesperobs' it sound like a ancient Egyptian god, arches_per_obs might be better :) Tim _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
