Yum - Different OS version and Arch

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 09:53:10 UTC 2010


On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:33:10 +0530, Sawrub wrote:

>   Running Fedora 14 x86_64, i was trying to search for a package using 
> YUM. The search results lists multiple versions [Fc12, Fc13, Fc14] and 
> different arch [i686 and x86_64], of which i just need it to list 
> against Fc14 and x86_64. Why is this so, can we prevent this or is this 
> a bad/undesirable feature in yum.

Packages, which have not been rebuilt for F-14, may still contain an
older distribution tag (such as ".fc12") in their package release name.
With the x86_64 arch you can also install and run i686 for 32-bit
compatibility. Not all i686 packages are available in the Yum repository
for x86_64, though. Just a subset.

> Stack trace :
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [sawrub at sawrub ~]$ yum list available pidgin*

That isn't a stack trace.


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