On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:34 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Bob Taylor wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:41 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
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Bob,
Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread.
I agree totally! The problem is with rpm. It refuses to install a non i386 rpm. I have verified this by downloading the latest kernel rpm. I
If rpm is broken, why not try to upgrade rpm on top of itself?
rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.rpm
You will need to manually download the rpm package again.
had to use --ignorearch flag to get rpm to install it. Now how do I get this flag to yum? I have exactarch=0 in /etc/yum.conf which I presumed was to fix this. It does not work. I have tried to pass this flag via /root/.rpmmacros with no help. So, why do only myself apparently have this problem? One other item. I made *no* changes to any yum files after installation except the addition of (maybe) rpmforge. One kernel was updated around this time. My guess is the problem started around the update to 5.1. Anybody have any input as to why at least one person does not have this problem? What could he have that is different from me regarding yum and rpm? Reading this I apologize for the ramble.
Bob,
I wouldn't muck with any more options, try to undo the changes you have made.
Didn't make any except possibly rpmforge.repo.
I didn't see what the rpm error was you got when you tried to install it, did you post it to the thread?
You said you re-installed yum, how did you remove yum?
yum remove yum Installed yum from my installation CD, ran yum update yum with no change.
If you did a rpm -e yum, then the yum plugins may have still been left behind. Here is the list you provided earlier:
None.
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The yum plugin that catches my attention is 'yum-versionlock'
enabled=0