You can see this too if you come from FC6 or FC7 and upgrade to 64 at the same time.
This is for SOME packages a DOWNGRADE, so it keeps the i386 ... then at a later
stage if you want to upgrade you get the problem above.
JObst
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:52:35PM -0700, John R Pierce (pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> 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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