up2date (was Yum and exactarch=1)

[Michael Stenner]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:48:48PM +0200, Matias Feliciano wrote:
> up2date is not better and it has no "exactarch=0".
> For up2date, rsync-2.6.1-0.pre1.i386 is not newer than
> rsync-2.6.0-1.athlon .
> 
> When i build a custom package I have the habit to use :
> $ rpmbuild -ba --target athlon ...
> 
> It seems I should not.

If don't want to use exactarch, then you don't have to.  Yum will
still only use architectures that are appropriate for your system.
It's not like it's going to put a ppc binary on your system :)

					-Michael
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