feedback: fc5 and fc6t3 x86_64

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Sat Oct 21 12:03:54 UTC 2006


Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> On 10/19/06, Jesse Keating <xxxx> wrote:
>> Absolutely not.  An end user's multilib capable machine + OS should
>> install the multilib software by default.  An end user shouldn't
>> have to figure out how to add it after the fact.  It should Just
>> Work(tm) for the user. There should be no problem with the x86_64
>> and i386 packages being installed.  If there are, like multilib
>> file conflicts, we fix them.
> 
> can yum search for foo and if it finds foo-N-N.x86_64.rpm it
> downloads it. If not it will download the 32 bit version. However if
> it finds foo-N-N.x86_64.rpm it should not download the 32 bit version
> (to prevent conflict).
> 
> "It should Just Work(tm) for the user" well my 3 sources have the
> same problem, and yum update fails each time. It is not just working
> for the user.
Is the conflicting package nautilus ? If so, see 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205260

DaveT.




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