package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

[seth vidal]

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.

 
yum install foo.i386 does exactly what you think it does.

yum install foo  installs the bestarch is can find for that pkgname.

-sv