Oct30

Single arch only updates

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 30/Oct/2009  ~  Posted in: Linux

I've been trying to automate the CentOS-5 updates system as much as possible - however, one thing that the system cant do at this time is be smart about packages that only exist on one arch and not on the others. eg. KVM on x86_64 only.

So for the time being, there will be updates announced for these package on all arch's. Ofcourse, this will be only for packages that are compatible, so in many cases only the .src.rpm will be announced!

I shall try and fix this soon'ish. But in the mean time, be sensible and look at the announcements completely if you do get them! The fix would be that the system does the right thing : only announce packages into the arch they are built for. So KVM will not get an announcement for i386, but only on x86_64.

- KB