How to update x86_64?

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 02:40 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> what is the current recommended practice to upgrade x86_64 installations
> from rawhide?
> 
> I used to locally mirror the rawhide repository for my architecture and
> rpm --freshen my installation from it. Recently I have found that RPM
> does not take the architecture into account when determining whether a
> package shall be updated and either installs the x86_64 package when
> only the i386 variant was installed or fails to upgrade an installed
> package when there is a i386 RPM with the same name but unsatisfied
> dependencies. I have therefore created a problem report but that was
> declined: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134171
> 
> Shall I reopen that bug? Do yum or up2date provide this kind of feature?
> How do I get them to use my local repository?
> 

Both yum and up2date should handle multilib/biarch updates just fine.

-sv