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

[Johnny Hughes]

Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 09:55:03AM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> 
>> This is on a RHEL5.2 x86_64 system however.
>>
>> # rpm -qf --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Time/HiRes.pm
>> perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.x86_64
>>
>> So it seems HiRes is already provided by perl, although the actual file
>> that conflicts is a man page.
>>
>> (This is why I generally avoid rpmforge if I can :)
> 
> This whole thing is not an rpmforge issue.  As pointed out somewhere
> else, it has to do with the way yum behaves on the x86_64 system.
> See:
> 
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2934
> 
> and
> 
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2008-June/004808.html
> 
> For example, I have a pure x86_64 system (no i386 packages installed).
> 
> # rpm -q perl
> perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.x86_64
> 
> # yum install perl
> (snip)
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
>  perl                    i386       4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3  extras             12 M
> Installing for dependencies:
>  db4                     i386       4.3.29-9.fc6     base              917 k
>  gdbm                    i386       1.8.0-26.2.1     base               27 k
>  libgcc                  i386       4.1.2-42.el5     base               93 k
>  libstdc++               i386       4.1.2-42.el5     base              360 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      5 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> 
> Total download size: 13 M
> Is this ok [y/N]:
> 
> Of course, if I specify with a .x86_64, it will not pull the .386
> perl.  But when it is called as a dependency, you will get what is
> seen above.
> 

Well ... in this particular case there is a problem with a package that 
conflicts with something that is part of the base perl.

The issue you bring up is also valid.

IF you have a PURE x86_64 system ... then you can put this line in yum.conf

exclude=*.i386 *.i686

That will keep it pure ... though, we are working on something to give 
the previous behavior to yum.

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