Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > >> Yes, you see you have Perl 64-bit and 32-bit installed. You really need >> it as an i386 package? >> >> I have no problem updating x86_64 packages only. >> > > Hi Alexander, > > thank you. I removed perl.i386 and the yum update process is now working > perfectly :) >
this is an ongoing sporadic problem with yum and centos ... I suspect what might be happening is the i386 package sometimes gets updated first, then confuses it when it goes to update the x86_64 package. perhaps this happens when a mirror is only partially updated, but thats just a wild guess. this can be a real annoyance when it happens with a package, like for instance a library, that you have to have both 386 and _64 packages for... _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
