[CentOS] i386 version of Perl getting installed on x64 system?

[Joseph L. Casale]

>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
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