FC11 packages 'newer' than FC12

[James Antill]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:38 -0500, Stu Tomlinson wrote:
> 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.

 No, the bug is that it fails at "Transaction Check" time. For instance
on an F11 box, I have:

% sudo yum list yum --showduplicates
Loaded plugins: aliases, keys, noop, presto, security, tmprepo
Installed Packages
yum.noarch                        3.2.24-9.fc12                         @rawhide
Available Packages
yum.noarch                        3.2.22-4.fc11                         fedora  
yum.noarch                        3.2.24-2.fc11                         updates 

...and if I try to "install yum" it says:

% sudo yum install yum
Loaded plugins: aliases, keys, noop, presto, security, tmprepo
Setting up Install Process
Package matching yum-3.2.24-2.fc11.noarch already installed. Checking for update.
Nothing to do
% 

...which is what it should be doing in the above cases, but the change
from .i586 to .i686 confuses the install/downgrade paths.

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