[CentOS] CentOS 5 Update error

Jobst Schmalenbach jobst at barrett.com.au
Tue Jun 15 00:45:57 UTC 2010



You can see this too if you come from FC6 or FC7 and upgrade to 64 at the same time.
This is for SOME packages a DOWNGRADE, so it keeps the i386 ... then at a later
stage if you want to upgrade you get the problem above.

JObst



On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:52:35PM -0700, John R Pierce (pierce at hogranch.com) wrote:
> Morten P.D. Stevens wrote:
> > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> >   
> >> Yes, you see you have Perl 64-bit and 32-bit installed. You really need
> >> it as an i386 package?
> >>
> >> I have no problem updating x86_64 packages only.
> >>     
> >
> > Hi Alexander,
> >
> > thank you. I removed perl.i386 and the yum update process is now working perfectly :)
> >   
> 
> 
> this is an ongoing sporadic problem with yum and centos ...  I suspect 
> what might be happening is the i386 package sometimes gets updated 
> first, then confuses it when it goes to update the x86_64 package.   
> perhaps this happens when a mirror is only partially updated, but thats 
> just a wild guess.
> 
> this can be a real annoyance when it happens with a package, like for 
> instance a library, that you have to have both 386 and _64 packages for...
> 
> 
> 
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