Re: CentOS 5 Update error

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Morten P.D. Stevens wrote:
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
>   
>> Yes, you see you have Perl 64-bit and 32-bit installed. You really need
>> it as an i386 package?
>>
>> I have no problem updating x86_64 packages only.
>>     
>
> Hi Alexander,
>
> thank you. I removed perl.i386 and the yum update process is now working perfectly :)
>   


this is an ongoing sporadic problem with yum and centos ...  I suspect 
what might be happening is the i386 package sometimes gets updated 
first, then confuses it when it goes to update the x86_64 package.   
perhaps this happens when a mirror is only partially updated, but thats 
just a wild guess.

this can be a real annoyance when it happens with a package, like for 
instance a library, that you have to have both 386 and _64 packages for...




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