On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:00:33 -0400 Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >You can't update the 64-bit version of a multilib package without also > >updating the 32-bit one. ... > ... > > Doesn't this work? > > yum update foo.x86_64 > > It seems to work for me. Depends on the contents of the rpm. If there is some "shared" file like an /etc/whatever.conf that claims to be "owned" by both whatever.i386.rpm and whatever.x86_64.rpm you won't be able to update just one, yum will require the same version of each. On the other hand, if the rpm doesn't contain anything except some /usr/lib64/whatever.so file, then you can update that independently. This is all from observation, mind you, there is absolutely no documentation anywhere in the universe that actually describes how this multi-arch stuff actually works.
