On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:01:29 +0000 (UTC) Petr Pisar ppisar@redhat.com wrote:
What's Architecture good for? To allow multilib. To install more instances of the same version. And yum ignores Architecture on purpose. But don't tell anybody that. Otherwise he could not claim we do not implement parallel installation.
Yum ignores arch? Since when?
Maybe you're using the word 'ignores' in a way I'm not familiar with.
yum install foo.i386 does exactly what you think it does.
yum install foo installs the bestarch is can find for that pkgname.
-sv