I think I found the source of the problem. I reran the yum localinstall with debug set to 10, and I see that the "protectbase" plugin is preventing certain packages from being updated to later versions. I will download and try to install the latest stable release of bacula instead of the cutting edge beta! My mistake, it had nothing to do with 32/64 bit thanks, Gordon On 11/9/06, Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex at milivojevic.org> wrote: > Quoting Gordon McLellan <gordonthree at gmail.com>: > > > I tried to install the latest bacula last night, rebuilding from the > > source rpm ... this is the command line I used, following the > > instructions at bacula.org: > > > > # rpmbuild --rebuild --define "build_centos4 1" \ > > --define "build_x86_64 1" --define "build_mysql4 1" bacula-1.39.26-1.src.rpm > > > > but the rebuild fails, citing all sorts of dependencies being > > required. problem is, all the dependencies it mentions are for 386 > > and/or 32 bit, not x86_64. when I try doing a yum install > > somedependency, yum informs me it's already installed > > Well, in the output it provided, it never says it wants i386 versions > of those packages. Do you have gcc-g++ and others installed on the > system? > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >