Brian, Here is my yum.conf: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=0 exclude=kernel* openoffice.org* [rh-ws3-updates] name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS3 Updates baseurl=http://xxx/yum/rh-ws3-up1/$basearch/updates Changing the exactarch seems to make no difference. Have updated to yum 2.0.7 as well JJ --------------------------------------------------------- With YUM 2, in the yum.conf file, there is a specification to update only the current architecture. I imagine you can delete that line. Check your man page for yum.conf for details. What's in your etc/YUM.CONF file? Can you post it here? Cheers, Brian P.S. Why would you install everything? Doesn't that make you vulnerable? Isn't it hard to keep your system updated? --- J J Urich <jjurich at divms.uiowa.edu> wrote: > Redhat installs both an i386/i686 and x86_64 > versions of 47 RPM's when > you do an install and select the "Everything" > option. This appears to > present a problem when using yum to update patches > as there appears to > be no way to do a --nodeps rpm equivalent. To give > one example of a > package with multiple arch'es load and patching > problems let's look at > trying to patch samba on a freshly loaded x86_64 > machine: > > Here proof the i386 and x86_64 version are loaded: > # grep samba- /root/install.log > Installing samba-common-3.0.0-14.3E.x86_64. > Installing samba-client-3.0.0-14.3E.x86_64. > Installing samba-3.0.0-14.3E.i386. > Installing samba-3.0.0-14.3E.x86_64. > Installing redhat-config-samba-1.0.16-1.noarch. > > Here's what happens when I patch by hand w/ RPM (get > the same dependency > error when using yum): > > # ls > samba-3.0.2-6.3E.i386.rpm > samba-client-3.0.2-6.3E.i386.rpm > samba-common-3.0.2-6.3E.i386.rpm > samba-3.0.2-6.3E.x86_64.rpm > samba-client-3.0.2-6.3E.x86_64.rpm > samba-common-3.0.2-6.3E.x86_64.rpm > > [root at dpmlh090 patches]# rpm -Fvh `ls` > error: Failed dependencies: > libreadline.so.4 is needed by > samba-client-3.0.2-6.3E > > The readline installed is the 64 bit version not the > 32, so when you try > and patch the i386 version of sambe you've got > problems... I opened a > ticket on this w/ redhat and they said for patching > to work I have to > specify both the i386 and x86_64 version as shown > above and patch with > the --nodeps option for the packages that multiple > arch's are loaded > for. Up2date handles this and patches correctly. > Has any one else run > into this and found a work around with yum or am I > missing something??? > > Thanks in advance... > > JJ -- -------------------------------------------------- JJ Urich CSG Director The University of Iowa Phone 319-335-0750 Email: jjurich at divms dot uiowa dot edu --------------------------------------------------
