(perl update clash) FC3 x86_64 Important Announcement

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:05:45PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 19:11 -0400, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 12:42 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> > > Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > That still leaves FC3 (and RHEL4 according to your bug report) broken
> > > > w/o explicit user intervention. The fix cannot be to hope users will
> > > > read (and remember) this announcement.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Find a better solution for existing users if you think you can do 
> > > better, then convince notting.
> > 
> > 
> > the solution is to have an arch "versioned" obsoletes: and have the
> > x86-64 perl obsolete the i386 one in the rpm :)
> 
> so you want to have a way of saying "this packages obsoletes that
> package, but only if that package is that arch"?

Obsoletes: perl = 5.8.1-1.4.1(i386) 
or something

> 
> let me offer a profound 'ugh'

thanks ;)