[CentOS] problem with centos 5.3 upgrade

Tue Jun 23 23:30:19 UTC 2009
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:46 AM, <attila.mathe at orange-ftgroup.com> wrote:
> I’m running CentOS 5.3 x86, and recently my yum update isn’t running as it
> should.
>
> It pops up with sub conflict messages for i386 packages, which I don’t need
> – even though yum is downloading them.
>
> Due to this sub conflict messages, I’m not able to update/install my x86
> packages, as the installation stops at the error message.
<snip>

One thing you should install, if it is not already installed, is the
yum-priorities plugin.

Give RPMForge a lower priority than you have for Base and Updates. If
you are also using EPEL, I suggest you give that a much lower
priority, or it will replace a *lot*  of packages on your box. GL