Yum and exactarch=1

[Michael Stenner]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:40:02PM +0200, Matias Feliciano wrote:
> $ man yum.conf
>        exactarch
>               1 or 0 - set to 1 to make yum update only update the
>               architectures of packages that you have installed. IE:
>               with this enabled yum will not install an i686 package
>               to update an i386 package.
> 
> ... and yum will not install an i386 package to update an i686 package.
> 
> Normal ?

Yes.  When exactarch is set, updates must precisely preserve the
architecture.  No change is allowed.

					-Michael
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