On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 15:16, seth vidal wrote:
> Apt doesn't mind "downgrading" architecture so no
problem there (just
> tested to be sure).
What does it do in the default configuration? Will it just downgrade a
kernel from i686 to i586 if the i686 packages haven't synced yet? Or
glibc from i686 to i386?
Yup, that's exactly what'll happen. It's perfectly ok in some cases, and
very bad in some others like the glibc or kernel cases (in a perfect
world there would be no half-synced repositories but..)
That's the whole reason yum has the exactarch
setting to keep that from happening.
Adding that to apt-rpm is on my todo-list, just haven't had time to do
anything about it so far.
- Panu -