FC11 packages 'newer' than FC12

Stu Tomlinson stu at nosnilmot.com
Thu Nov 19 18:38:47 UTC 2009


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 13:19, James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:03 -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> [...]
>> For example, 'yum update iw' does nothing; 'yum install iw' results in
>> an error message
>>
>> Transaction Check Error:
>>     package iw-0.9.17-3.fc11.i586 (which is newer than
>> iw-0.9.17-2.fc12.i686) is
>> already installed
>
>  This is due to the .i586 => .i686 change, probably worth a BZ against
> yum. downgrade also has problems ... of course this should really be the
> last time now, so adding any more hacks is going to be a low priority.

Surely it's more due to the fact that 3 > 2.




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