Re: installing multiple arches

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:09 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:36 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> >   
> >> seth vidal wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Yah, that's the problem - it's a bug in 3.2.16 - it's been fixed in git
> >>> and will be out in the next yum release.
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Thanks for the info. I assume this bug also affects x86_64?
> >> I'll be updating my yum installation to the git snapshot then.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > yah - easy work around, though. just install-by-arch.
> >
> >   
> 
> Meaning (for example) "yum install redhat-lsb.i386" instead of just "yum 
> install redhat-lsb"?
> That works, but there are cases when the old "install both arch" is 
> desirable.
> 
> In my case I create a custom distro based on RHEL5, where the x86_64 ISO 
> doesn't contain i386 rpms. This is mainly to save space (so it can fit 
> into a 700-MB CD).
> If users need i386 packages, with the old behavior I can simply tell 
> them to do "yum install `rpm -qa`", and yum will pull i386 version of 
> x86_64 packages installed, if available.
> 
> PS : I just tried snapshot ca3dd56f5bbaa01fc21846aec7366d6a22c9335e, 
> latest from gitweb. multilib_policy=all still doesn't work. I assume the 
> public git repository isn't updated yet.
> 

You want to make sure you get the yum-3_2_X branch from git, not
master/HEAD.

-sv