Yum update path problem for switchdesk 3.9.8-18 -> 4.0.2-1

Andrew Farris fedora at andrewfarris.com
Fri Apr 30 22:46:26 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 08:33 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > Could the culprit be the change of the ARCH tag?
> > yum list switchdesk:
> > 
> > Looking in Available Packages:
> > Name                                Arch   Version                  Repo
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > switchdesk                          noarch 4.0.2-1                  
> > development
> >  
> > Looking in Installed Packages:
> > Name                                Arch   Version                  Repo
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > switchdesk                          i386   3.9.8-18                 db
> 
> yes, that is exactly what it is.
> 
> set exactarch=0 in yum.conf and this update will go through.
> 
> Stanislav, thank you - good eye.
> 
> -sv

Yes, that was the problem... and rather obvious now that you pointed it
out!  Thanks.  The above is exactly what yum list switchdesk comes up
with.
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