Old broken packages

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 23:12 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2006, Shahms King wrote:
> RPM will happily upgrade such a package, it's yum-specific behavior to 
> refuse to change package arch. Set exactarch=0 in yum.conf and it'll 
> upgrade that. The other way around this is renaming the package to 
> something else.


I don't know what yum.conf the above system is coming from but
exactarch, by default is only used on the exactarchlist which is a list
of pkgs where keeping the same arch update to update makes a difference.


-sv