Concerning `fedora-release'

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 11:27 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> How is the updating of fedora-release pkg supposed to work?  I've run
> an extensive and complete update off of rawhide, but my release
> package is still fedora-release-2.90-3.
> 
> Running `yum --obsoletes update fedora-release' doesn't find a package
> of that name of course.
> 

the reason for that is that there is an arch change from i386 to noarch.

you can set exactarch=0 in your yum.conf then yum will notice it.

quick survey - should exactarch be a cli option so you can turn it off
w/o editing the config file?

-sv