Re: installing multiple arches

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 18:03 -0500, Evelyn Brengle wrote:
> I just updated my system from fc6 to f9, and thus updated yum.
> yum-3.2.14-10.fc9.noarch
> python-2.5.1-25.fc9.ppc
> 
> I have an rpm with two arches: foo.ppc and foo.ppc64. 
> In my yum repository, they are both default installs.
> 
> Previously, "yum install foo" would install both of the arches.
> This is what I want. Now, however, only one of the arches installs:
> 
> Testing various versions of yum, I find:
> yum-3.2.12 - both rpms install
> yum-3.2.13 - the ppc64 rpm installs, but the ppc rpm does not 
> yum-3.2.14 (f9) - the ppc rpm installs, but the ppc64 rpm does not
> yum-3.2.16 - the ppc64 rpm installs, but the ppc rpm does not
> 
> Was some deliberate change made between yum-3.2.12 and yum-3.2.13 to 
> cause this behavior? 


yes.

> Is there some configuration setting I can use to restore the
> behavior back to "both"?

yes:
in your yum.conf set:
multilib_policy=all

and that will change the behavior back.

-sv