yum / rpm dependency broken in F7 ?

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:00:33 -0400
Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:

> >You can't update the 64-bit version of a multilib package without also
> >updating the 32-bit one. ...  
>  ...
> 
> Doesn't this work?
> 
>     yum update foo.x86_64
> 
> It seems to work for me.

Depends on the contents of the rpm. If there is some "shared"
file like an /etc/whatever.conf that claims to be "owned" by
both whatever.i386.rpm and whatever.x86_64.rpm you won't be
able to update just one, yum will require the same version
of each.

On the other hand, if the rpm doesn't contain anything except
some /usr/lib64/whatever.so file, then you can update that
independently.

This is all from observation, mind you, there is absolutely
no documentation anywhere in the universe that actually
describes how this multi-arch stuff actually works.