(sorry, I'm not subscribed to the list; I'm responding from the web archive) I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. I made a yum repository out of the original ISO images, and another repository containing various updates, etc. yum works great in general, and has been fine for the most part on x86_64; the only problem I've run into in the past is the inability to specify a particular architecture for a package in a yumgroups.xml file (though that's just a limitation of the XML format used by Red Hat). Instead, I do a manual 'yum install' if I need to specify a particular architecture type. In this particular case, I had installed both the i686 and the x86_64 glibc at the same time. yum only wants to update the x86_64 version when I tell it to 'yum update'. I'm guessing this has to do with the fact that the same package name was installed twice (once for each architecture). I can try reproducing it on a non-RHEL machine at some point; I don't have one set up at the moment for testing but I guess a test case would be a Fedora x86_64 box attempting to upgrade glibc, when both the i386 and x86_64 glibc RPMs are installed. It should upgrade both simultaneously, if not then it will fail like it does for me. Thanks, Chris Wing wingc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Odd, I've not encountered this problem on any of my x86_64 machines > running yum 2.0.X. > > What distro? > > -sv
