Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 192837
yum ignores newer noarch packages when arch-specific package exists
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:54:25 EST
Description of problem: When doing a yum install or yum update newer noarch packages are ignored if an arch-specific package exists in the repository. I'm filing against yum because that's where I see the behavior, but it may be an rpm problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.6.1-0.fc5 (though it happened in FC4 as well) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install python-reportlab 2. Watch as yum tries to install the FC3-era python-reportlab-1.19-1.i386 3. Actual results: yum attempts to install the older, but arch-specific package which fails as it is an FC3 package which requires python 2.3. Expected results: yum installs the newer noarch pacakge Additional info: I think there may be a related bug in the scripts which manage the repository as the offending package(s) shouldn't be in the FC4/FC5 repository at all as they are un-rebuilt FC3 packages.
ah ha. This is the part I didn't understand from the email thread. You're not talking about for updates, you're talking about for a new install. In the case of an update yum will dtrt when it comes to upgrading from i386->noarch and vice-versa. But the install appears to be looking for the best arch first then version of that one. I'll look into this one, thanks.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189998 ***
Jeremy, could you go ahead and merge the patch - I'm pretty sure it solves the problem for both these bugs. thanks