I found the problem. I had omitted the line: exactarch=1 from the yum.conf file. yum was therefore using the default setting (0) for this. When I add 'exactarch=1' to the config file, then yum works as expected. >From the documentation it wasn't quite clear to me what effect this setting would have, so I left it unspecified. Now I see that it changes the behavior of multi-arch upgrades. I will have to send a longer email to the list at some point to describe what we do with yum. We use it as part of a larger configuration management system and dynamically generate the yum.conf file along with other things. We're probably abusing it in some ways but it has been a great tool for us and I appreciate the work you've put in to develop it. Thanks again, Chris wingc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, seth vidal wrote: > I'll check on our centos machines - but I'm pretty sure it works in el3, > too. > > at least I've heard no other reports about it. > > -sv
