Jason's right--if I install the package directly with RPM, it works as expected. cheers, lars >From seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:08:09AM -0400: > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 18:26 -0700, Lars Damerow wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm using yum to update an x86_64 machine, and one of the repositories it's > > using is shared with some i686 machines. I'm trying to get yum to install Sun's > > j2sdk package, built for the i586, and yum installs it correctly on the i686 > > machines. > > > > On the x86_64 machine, though, yum acts like the j2sdk package isn't there. I > > assume that's because it's an i586 package and yum thinks it isn't compatible. > > maybe I'm crazy but is an i586 package ACTUALLY compatible with an > x86_64? > > -sv > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum ___________________________________________________________ lars damerow button pusher pixar animation studios lars@xxxxxxxxx "Ed is the standard text editor."