[CentOS] Java

Sun Jul 17 22:59:16 UTC 2005
Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Phil Schaffner wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 18:17 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> > 
> ... snip ...
> > > 
> > > The weirdness with the [dag_i386] stuff is to be able to find i386
> > > packages on my x86_64 arch.  On a 32-bit machine the 1st entries are
> > > sufficient.
> > 
> > My x86_64 repository used to be a merge of i386 and x86_64. Sadly Yum 
> > cannot handle this. (ie. it installs both archs) See Yum bugzilla for the 
> > report.
> > 
> > After a bunch of mails from confused Yum users I decided to keep them 
> > seperated.
> 
> Thanks for the enlightenment on the reasoning.  Only noticed the problem
> when trying to install packages that are i386-only on x86_64.  It would
> be nice if the i386-only packages showed up in the x86_64 repo; however,
> that sounds likely to be an extra manual load on you, unless some bright
> person can suggest a way to automate the process.

Not only that, it also needs to pull in all dependencies and be smart 
enough to know when to upgrade to x86_64 and when to keep both.

Seems something Yum should be able to do, much like pinning and the 
protect-base functionality.

Kind regards,
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