[issue215] Cannot switch architecture of an installed RPM with rpm-force defaulting to False

[Andreas Hanke at Labix Tracker]

New submission from Andreas Hanke <andreas.hanke at gmx-topmail.de>:

rpm-force defaults to False in svn.

This breaks switching the architecture of installed RPMs.

For example, I installed ffmpeg at i586 by mistake. Trying to install ffmpeg at i686
in the GUI results in the error message:

package ffmpeg-0.4.9-7.pm.svn20060918 is already installed

After changing rpm-force back to True, it's working as expected.

The reinstall and downgrade cases are not affected by this problem, they are
working correctly even with rpm-force defaulting to False. So I guess they are
handled as exception, this needs to be extended to cover the architecture
switching case as well.

This is SUSE 10.1 (i686) with rpm-4.4.2.

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messages: 712
nosy: ahanke
priority: bug
project: smart
status: unread
title: Cannot switch architecture of an installed RPM with rpm-force defaulting to False

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