yum wont upgrade noarch -> arch-specific

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Sun Apr 8 19:08:17 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:24 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:50:53PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 12:15:14 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > 
> > >     Based upon the numerous comments about how firmware-addon-dell
> > > should not be noarch, I converted it to arch-specific over the weekend
> > > along with some other bugfixes I was making. In the previous thread,
> > > somebody had stated that yum would handle this properly.
> > 
> > Yes, it does.
> >  
> > >     Well, it turns out that yum will not upgrade a noarch.rpm to
> > > arch-specific in FC6, at least, so I am busted.
> > > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235632
> > 
> > Cannot confirm. Works for me. FC6 and Rawhide.
> > 
> > $ rpm -q test
> > test-1.0-0.fdr.3.fc7.7
> > $ rpm -q test --qf %{arch}\\n
> > noarch
> > 
> > $ sudo yum update
> > [...]
> > ---> Package test.i386 0:1.0-0.fdr.4.fc7.7 set to be updated
> > Checking deps for test.i386 0-1.0-0.fdr.4.fc7.7 - u
> > Checking deps for test.noarch 0-1.0-0.fdr.3.fc7.7 - None
> > filelists.xml.gz          100% |=========================|  402 B    00:00     
> > 
> > Dependencies Resolved
> > 
> > =============================================================================
> >  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
> > =============================================================================
> > Updating:
> >  test                    i386       1.0-0.fdr.4.fc7.7  misc               35 k
> 
> I am wondering if this is just an issue going from .noarch -> x86_64,
> because I set up a similar test, and going from noarch->i386 worked
> fine, but noarch->x86_64 did not.

it shouldn't matter but I'm curious of this:

yum list pkgname


I'd like to see all the potential updates that are available, please.

-sv





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