[issue174] architecture mixing on biarch systems

[Raman Gupta at Labix Tracker]

Raman Gupta <rocketraman at fastmail.fm> added the comment:

I just had this problem with kernel modules from livna on a Fedora Core 5
system. Livna just released the NTFS and Nvidia kernel modules for the latest
kernel, for both the i686 and i586 architectures.

However, smart upgrade wants to install the i586 kernel modules, and "upgrade"
the 686 kernel with the 586 kernel to satisfy dependencies, even though the
"best" solution is to just install the 686 modules. Specifying the i686 version
as an argument to install works fine.

smart> upgrade --explain

Upgrading packages (3):
  kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 at i586
    Upgrades:
      kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 at i686
    Required By:
      kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-1.2.6.17_1.2187_FC5 at i586 (installed)
      kmod-nvidia-1.0.8774-1.2.6.17_1.2187_FC5 at i586 (installed)
  kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-1.2.6.17_1.2187_FC5 at i586
    Upgrades:
      kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-1.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5 at i686
    Requires:
      kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 at i586 (installed)
  kmod-nvidia-1.0.8774-1.2.6.17_1.2187_FC5 at i586
    Upgrades:
      kmod-nvidia-1.0.8774-1.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5 at i686
    Requires:
      kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 at i586 (installed)

Removing packages (1):
  kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 at i686

15.9MB of package files are needed. 3.0MB will be used.

Confirm changes? (Y/n): n

smart> info kmod-nvidia-1.0.8774

Name: kmod-nvidia
Version: 1.0.8774-1.2.6.17_1.2187_FC5 at i586
Priority: 0

...

Name: kmod-nvidia
Version: 1.0.8774-1.2.6.17_1.2187_FC5 at i686
Priority: 0

smart> install kmod-nvidia-1.0.8774-1.2.6.17_1.2187_FC5 at i686

Upgrading packages (1):
  kmod-nvidia-1.0.8774-1.2.6.17_1.2187_FC5 at i686

1.6MB of package files are needed. 5.1MB will be used.

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