There is a known issue with the new version of yum on RHEL/CentOS 5.2 ...
You need to specify the packages like this:
yum install <package_name>.x86_64
not
yum install <package_name>
If you do not specify, then yum can install both (or either) of i386 or x86_64 packages to meet that requirement.
I think I found the offending package, I'll jump on the rf irc channel and see what I can make of this:
# yum list *HiRes* Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading "priorities" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile <snip> 257 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Available Packages perl-Time-HiRes.x86_64 1.9715-1.el5.rf rpmforge perl-Time-HiRes-Value.noarch 0.05-1.el5.rf rpmforge
# yum install perl-Time-HiRes.x86_64 Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading "priorities" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile <snip> 257 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package perl.i386 4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: libgdbm.so.2 for package: perl --> Running transaction check ---> Package gdbm.i386 0:1.8.0-26.2.1 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: perl i386 4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 extras 12 M Installing for dependencies: gdbm i386 1.8.0-26.2.1 base 27 k
Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 2 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 12 M Is this ok [y/N]: