Strange i386/x86_64 behavior

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 20:38 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I'm really confused : "yum list pam-devel" tells me that the x86_64
> version is installed, but "yum -d 5 install pam-devel" then says "No other
> pam-devel installed, adding to list for potential install", and goes ahead
> and installs the i386 package :-( Those i386 pam-devel and zlib-devel are
> causing my php build to fail miserably, and I don't know how to keep them
> from being installed.

It does that b/c you're asking:

 install a pam-devel. Install it if it is no other is installed in that
multilib set or if the one installed is older the one we would install.

-sv