On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 11:58 -0500, Christopher Allen Wing wrote: > Seth: > > > What version of yum? I'm sure I already asked you but I'd appreciate it > > if you could let me know, again. > > I'm using 2.0.7, with some very minor hacks (tweaking the log format, > etc). I didn't change anything related to dependency resolution, though. > > > > I'm guessing this has to do with the fact that the same package name was > > > installed twice (once for each architecture). > > > > It shouldn't have any problem with that at all. I've checked on some of > > my x86_64 machines running fc2 and yum 2.0.7 in my office and they're > > getting glibc updates for both i686 and x86_64 by doing a yum update. > > Interesting. It looks like you should be in the same situation for FC2 > that I am in for RHEL3: > > the original FC2 x86_64 release contained: > glibc-2.3.3-27.x86_64.rpm > glibc-2.3.3-27.i686.rpm > glibc-common-2.3.3-27.x86_64.rpm > > the update server for FC2 contains: > glibc-2.3.3-27.1.i686.rpm > glibc-2.3.3-27.1.x86_64.rpm > glibc-common-2.3.3-27.1.x86_64.rpm > > okay a couple of questions. 1. is this an amd64 or a nocona? 2. what do uname -i and uname -m report? 3. what does /etc/rpm/platform have in it? 4. what does /etc/rpm/macros show? Thanks -sv