Fedora 8 on PS3: ppc or ppc64?

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:42:28 +0000
Andrea <mariofutire at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:17:22 +0000
> > Andrea <mariofutire at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > 
> > It's not really easy for yum to figure that out.  What you want might
> > be different from what others want, etc.  It also doesn't help that
> > x86_64 and ppc64 have almost exact opposite semantics as far as what
> > is considered the "good" arch.  That being said, there is work on-going
> > in the yum area to improve the situation for multi-lib.
> > 
> 
> I understand all that. It looks a difficult task to me.
> I am happy to be in charge to choose which of the 2 to install,
> 
> but:
> 
> "When yum tells me that both gdb.ppc and gdb.ppc64 are installed, it is not true.
> I would call it a bug."
> 
> Only one of them is usable (maybe the last to have been installed, but I am not sure).

Yum can only report what the underlying package manager does for
installed applications.  That's RPM.  The problem is in RPM, not yum.

josh