Thanks.
What you wrote led me to a google search which resulted in this link:
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2005-August/007269.html
which had a line to do a yum exclude which allowed me to get it to fly. It's
now going thru 171 packages.... w00T...
Thanks!
-Ben
On Monday 17 April 2006 11:27, Jim Perrin wrote:
> > It appears that packages openssl and fontconfig are conflicting with
> > themselves! (?!?)
>
> Yes, they are. You're suffering from x86 vs x86_64. You need to
> exclude i386 in your yum configs
>
> > This is a clean, minimal install of CentOS 4.3/64, (installed with all
> > optional packages unchecked, so only disk 1 was needed) I haven't even
done a
> > yum update, but that doesn't change anything when I try it. (I've now
wiped
> > it twice to try to figure out what I'm missing. Both packages are already
> > installed, with the versions complained about...
> >
> > I've tried running rpm --rebuilddb, and yum clean all to no positive
change.
> >
> > What's going on here? What can I try from here?
>
> create a ~/.rpmmacros file containing:
> %_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}
>
> and this will clue you into when i386 packages are conflicting with
> x86_64 packages.
>
>
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