yum is installing both i386 and x86_64 for everything

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski D.Mierzejewski at icm.edu.pl
Mon May 21 13:23:53 UTC 2007


On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:15:19AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> Niels Weber wrote:
> 
> > 2007/5/21, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
> >> I have several x86_64 with current rawhide.  If I do
> >> yum install blah
> > 
> > You should do:
> > 
> > yum install blah.x86_64
> > 
> >> It will install both blah.i386 and blah.x86_64.
> >>
> >> I think this has to be fixed.
> > 
> > I agree that it is a bit annoying.
> > 
> > Niels
> > 
> 
> I think it's more than annoying.  It is first of all, a radical change in
> the behavior I'm used to.  I bet this is going to surprise a lot of users.

Change? It's been like that ever since multilib was introduced.
I agree it's annoying, though.

Regards,
R.

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