You can see this too if you come from FC6 or FC7 and upgrade to 64 at the same time. This is for SOME packages a DOWNGRADE, so it keeps the i386 ... then at a later stage if you want to upgrade you get the problem above.
JObst On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:52:35PM -0700, John R Pierce (pie...@hogranch.com) wrote: > 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 -- Road to hell is paved with NAND gates. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
