Firefox Plugin Problems Redux

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Fri Apr 22 17:00:27 UTC 2005


On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 04:43:41PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > 
> > There is really nothing which would stop you from installing
> > firefox.i386 on an x86_64 installation.  'yum' will do that for you
> > gladly.
> 
> But what will happen when there is a new version of firefox out? Won't
> yum then decide that 64-bit is best, and install that?

You may easily check for yourself if operations are correct but
'man yum.conf' says explicitely:

       exactarch
              Either  '1'  or  '0'. Set to '1' to make yum update only update
              the architectures of packages that you have installed. ie: with
              this  enabled yum will not install an i686 package to update an
              i386 package. Default is '1'.

> That sounds like some kind of hell...

Only if you do not bother with documentation.

BTW - FC2 for x86_64 did provide both sets of mozilla packages for
x86_64 and i386.  Ten packages in each set.  Only later this was
dropped.

   Michal




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