why does yum want to upgrade koffice?

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 10:44 -0400, sean wrote:
> [root at amd64-3000 development]# rpm -qa | grep koffice
> koffice-filters-1.4.1-4
> koffice-devel-1.4.1-4
> koffice-core-1.4.1-4
> koffice-kword-1.4.1-4
> 
> yum upgrade
> ..........
> Added 15 new packages, deleted 0 old in 1.83 seconds
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. 
> Please wait.
> ---> Package koffice-kword.x86_64 0:1.4.1-4.fc4 set to be 
> updated
> ---> Package koffice-core.x86_64 0:1.4.1-4.fc4 set to be updated
> ---> Package koffice-filters.x86_64 0:1.4.1-4.fc4 set to be 
> updated
> ---> Package koffice-devel.x86_64 0:1.4.1-4.fc4 set to be 
> updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libgs.so.7()(64bit) for package: 
> koffice-filters
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: libgs.so.7()(64bit) is needed by 
> package koffice-filters
> 
> 
> koffice needs to be rebuilt with libgs.so.8. Which I've 
> done. Why does yum keep wanting to upgrade to the extras 
> koffice?
> 
> One issue:  the installed koffice where built --target=i486 
> ( don't ask).
> 
> rpm -q koffice-core.i486
> koffice-core-1.4.1-4
> 
> But, why would yum try to install an x86_64 set? Will it 
> always try to install the preferred target if another target 
> is installed?

b/c the i486 koffice-core doesn't provide a 64bit libgs

-sv