[Mageia-dev] 32 bits packages preferred over 64 bits packages?

[Florian Hubold]

Am 07.10.2011 22:34, schrieb Thomas Backlund:
> Samuel Verschelde skrev 7.10.2011 23:28:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maybe this question will demonstrate that I have no experience with 64 bits 
>> systems, but I don't mind it :)
>>
>> When installing the git package, several dependencies are pulled, but two of 
>> them come from 32 bits media:
>>
>> (medium "Core 32bit Release")
>>    perl-Authen-SASL               2.150.0      3.mga1        noarch  
>> (suggested)
>>    perl-Error                     0.170.160    1.mga1        noarch
>> 23MB of additional disk space will be used.
>> 4.7MB of packages will be retrieved.
>>
>>
>> I don't understand why perl-Authen-SASL and perl-Error are installed from 32 
>> bits media instead of the 64 bits Core Release.
>>
>> Do you have any clue?
>>
>
> Because they are noarch we dont care from wich arch repo it comes from as 
> it's the same package.
>
> -- 
> Thomas
>
>
AFAICT there is an actual problem underneath this, f.ex. when using virtual 
provides to install packages,
but the cases are really rare where this happens to non-noarch-packages. But 
i've seen a case where
an i586 package was preferred over x86_64, but can't really remember which :(