yum wont upgrade noarch -> arch-specific
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Sun Apr 8 19:08:17 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:24 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:50:53PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 12:15:14 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> >
> > > Based upon the numerous comments about how firmware-addon-dell
> > > should not be noarch, I converted it to arch-specific over the weekend
> > > along with some other bugfixes I was making. In the previous thread,
> > > somebody had stated that yum would handle this properly.
> >
> > Yes, it does.
> >
> > > Well, it turns out that yum will not upgrade a noarch.rpm to
> > > arch-specific in FC6, at least, so I am busted.
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235632
> >
> > Cannot confirm. Works for me. FC6 and Rawhide.
> >
> > $ rpm -q test
> > test-1.0-0.fdr.3.fc7.7
> > $ rpm -q test --qf %{arch}\\n
> > noarch
> >
> > $ sudo yum update
> > [...]
> > ---> Package test.i386 0:1.0-0.fdr.4.fc7.7 set to be updated
> > Checking deps for test.i386 0-1.0-0.fdr.4.fc7.7 - u
> > Checking deps for test.noarch 0-1.0-0.fdr.3.fc7.7 - None
> > filelists.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 402 B 00:00
> >
> > Dependencies Resolved
> >
> > =============================================================================
> > Package Arch Version Repository Size
> > =============================================================================
> > Updating:
> > test i386 1.0-0.fdr.4.fc7.7 misc 35 k
>
> I am wondering if this is just an issue going from .noarch -> x86_64,
> because I set up a similar test, and going from noarch->i386 worked
> fine, but noarch->x86_64 did not.
it shouldn't matter but I'm curious of this:
yum list pkgname
I'd like to see all the potential updates that are available, please.
-sv
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