Yum - Different OS version and Arch

Sawrub luckysharma11 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 10:21:44 UTC 2010


  On 11/14/2010 03:23 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 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.
That was clear that searching for a packages under the repos may list a 
package that is not of the same OS version [if its not build for that 
version] all i wanted was to know that why are they included in the 
results for a different version of OS. Since as i have read that 
installing packages like this ['OS version xx' packages under 'OS 
version yy' ] should not be encouraged. And since YUM is there to make 
package installation easy, practices like this should not be there there.
> 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.
>
Yes that i know, all i wanted to say here is that is it a good practice 
to list a package of different arch when the one for the requested is 
not available under the default search. Packages of different arch 
[except noarch] should only be listed against a special YUM option [like 
--enable-different-arch] or be listed under a different head in the 
default listing [like --Different Architecture--].
>> Stack trace :
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [sawrub at sawrub ~]$ yum list available pidgin*
> That isn't a stack trace.
My bad, will keep in mind

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