Bug 449056

can you post your yum.conf for multilib_policy=all - I just want to make sure
it's all spelled right.

and then could you run yum install libflashsupport and post the output?

thanks

gotten a second confirmation on this one.

Created attachment 307228 [details]
yum.conf with the multilib_policy=all

Attached.  I doubt I misspelled it as I cut and pasted it from the man page:

Here is the output even with multilib_policy=all explicitly set:


$ sudo yum -d1 install libflashsupport

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
=============================================================================
Installing:
 libflashsupport         x86_64     000-0.5.svn20070904  fedora            8.7 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 8.7 k
Is this ok [y/N]: 

 Here's the fix:

diff --git a/yum/__init__.py b/yum/__init__.py
index 72f9091..c621a73 100644
--- a/yum/__init__.py
+++ b/yum/__init__.py
@@ -2187,7 +2187,7 @@ class YumBase(depsolve.Depsolve):
                            
                            pkgs = use
                            
-                pkgs = packagesNewestByName(pkgs)
+                pkgs = packagesNewestByNameArch(pkgs)
 
                 pkgbyname = {}
                 for pkg in pkgs:

...it'll be in the nesxt Fed-9 update. Upstream commit
f6317aabb2734357311b6103286a76054c3cd0e9

Still not fixed... at least not in yum-3.2.16-2.fc9.noarch.  What yum update is
this in?

yum-3.2.17-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9

yum-3.2.17-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update yum'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-6301

Better, but still doesn't work.  Explicitly setting multilib_policy=all now at
least works with yum-3.2.17-1.fc9 ... but the default behaviour when it isn't
set at all is still the implicit "best" arch.

I believe that this isn't the intended behaviour... all past versions of yum I
can remember installs with the "all" assumption unless "best" is manually set.

Joshua, in F9 we changed the default so yum will only install the best arch not
both.

But it is an option so you can change it.

Ah... ok.  So "best" is intentionally the default.  I don't know that I like
that, but that is a far different issue than this bug, where multilib_policy=all
wasn't even working.

Ok then... lets close this out as fixed.  Thanks Seth.

yum-3.2.17-2.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

yum-3.2.17-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

yum-3.2.18-1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

yum-3.2.19-1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.2.19-1.fc8

yum-3.2.19-3.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.