package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

[Petr Pisar]

On 2013-03-29, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:01:29 +0000 (UTC)
> Petr Pisar <ppisar at 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.
>  
Yes, I used it a little metaphorically.

> yum install foo.i386 does exactly what you think it does.
>
> yum install foo  installs the bestarch is can find for that pkgname.
>
That's exactly the goal. Yum _understands_ architecture. It allows you
to install, upgrade, remove architecteruces independetly, yet it allow
to substistute one with another one to meet dependencies.

Misusing names does not allow all of that.

-- Petr