Multiarch crazyiness

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Oct 25 17:45:07 UTC 2007


Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net) said: 
> > > So, on upgrade, yum will grab foo.x86_64 to upgrade the older install. It
> > > will then pull in foo-libs.x86_64 for dependencies. Meanwhile, the old
> > > foo.i386 will remain, often leading to conflicts.
> > 
> > Wouldn't an Obsoletes: foo < current_version fix this? Unless we want to
> > ship 32bit & 64bit versions of foo in the same repo
> 
> It *should*; need some more testing so this can be 100% codified.

Yes, obsoletes works here.

Bill




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