yum wont upgrade noarch -> arch-specific

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 16:21 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 15:17 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 02:36:14PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:28:29PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 02:26:08PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > > > > Should have posted this, because I ran it several times while verifying things:
> > > > > $ sudo yum list firmware-addon-dell
> > > > [...]
> > > > > Installed Packages
> > > > > firmware-addon-dell.noarch               1.2.6-1.fc6            installed       
> > > > > Available Packages
> > > > > firmware-addon-dell.x86_64               1.2.10-1.fc6           extras 
> > > > 
> > > > Forgive me if you posted this earlier and I missed it or if this is an
> > > > insulting question, but: do you have exactarch=1 in your yum.conf?
> > > 
> > 
> > Had a conversation with seth on irc, and it looks like this is a
> > multilib bug.
> 
> not a multilib bug - it's a bug in the update-list generation in
> rpmUtils.updates.py
> 
> it only happens on multilib systems - which, semantically, I think is
> different than a multilib bug.

okay, I think I found it and posted a patch in the bug you opened.

-sv