Upgrades with modified archs

Gustavo Niemeyer gustavo at niemeyer.net
Tue Jan 31 18:55:26 PST 2006


> EVR upgrade was implied, but I should had made that clear, sorry for
> the too short description of the problem.
> 
> smart install foo would upgrade the package. It was smart upgrade that
> failed to pick it up due to i386 -> noarch change (along with bumping
> the EVR).
> 
> Maybe there is some arch protection that can be turned off?

Humm.. interesting case. I guess that's a consequence of how
cross-architecture upgrades is currently handled
(e.g. i386 vs. amd64).

I'll try to simulate the problem locally and let you know
about any news.

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Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net



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