On 10/25/07, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Bill Nottingham (notting(a)redhat.com) said:
> Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net) said:
> > > So, on upgrade, yum will grab foo.x86_64 to upgrade the older install. It
> > > will then pull in foo-libs.x86_64 for dependencies. Meanwhile, the old
> > > foo.i386 will remain, often leading to conflicts.
> >
> > Wouldn't an Obsoletes: foo < current_version fix this? Unless we want
to
> > ship 32bit & 64bit versions of foo in the same repo
>
> It *should*; need some more testing so this can be 100% codified.
Yes, obsoletes works here.
even thought it requires a bit of work its imho the best solution to
fix the bindir issue.