Why has yum behavior changed in F9?
Paolo Galtieri
pgaltieri at cox.net
Mon Jun 2 03:15:29 UTC 2008
Rex Dieter wrote:
> Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>
>
>> Today I installed F9 on an x86_64 laptop which previously was running F8
>> and so far I find F9 to be a regression from F8. In F8 when I ran:
>>
>> yum -y install gtk2
>>
>> it would install both the i386 version and the x86_64 version of the
>> package. In F9 it only installs the x86_64 version, I have to explicitly
>> install the i386 version. Why the regression?
>>
>
> Not regression, change of default behavior. Many, many folks disliked that.
>
> controlled via conf parameter multilib_policy (in /etc/yum.conf) as
> multilib_policy=best
> which is the current, default behavior or,
> multilib_policy=all
> to install all available archs, matching F8.
>
> -- Rex
>
>
This option doesn't seem to work. I try to install a package for which
there is both an i386 version and an x86_64 version and it still only
installs the x86_64 version.
Paolo
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