On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 16:02 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > With the help of Tim and James A. I have a patch which lets the user > select what will happen when they are on a multilib arch and they do an: > install foo or install foo* as to which archs it will install by > default. > > the config parameter is multilib_policy and it's options are best and > all. > > all == the behavior yum has always had - which is to install all archs > it can (ie: i386 and x86_64) > > best == install only the 'best' arch for that architecture. So on x86_64 > it is x86_64, on ppc64 it should be ppc, on sparc64 it is is sparcv9, > etc > > The default is 'all' > > This patch also handles removing ia64 as multilib arch b/c it no longer > is one. > > It also deals with a small problem with the earlier rpmsack patch from > Florian. > > I feel like we probably want this, but I'm open to opinions. >
yes and the patch is here: http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/patches/yum-bestarch-multilib.patch -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
