On 12/14/2011 11:49 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/13/2011 06:26 PM, Philip Manuel wrote: >> >> On 12/14/2011 11:17 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> On 12/13/2011 06:05 PM, Philip Manuel wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> We use mrepo to keep a local repository. I downloaded the CentOS6.1 iso >>>> and used that as the base. We also have the CR repo added. >>>> >>>> I was expecting this change to cause no issues but the following >>>> packages have version issues between the base 6.1 and the CR repo:- >>>> >>>> There maybe a few other packages but this causes an issue with yum as it >>>> doesn't handle the el6_ suffix differences. >>>> >>>> Is this the intended behaviour ? >>> please run: >>> >>> yum clean all >>> >>> then try the update again. >>> >>> Yum handles the updates with no problems, but cached metadata can cause >>> issues. >> >> I've fixed the perl ones by removing them and reinstalling but I don't >> want to keep doing this for every package > There is nothing in 6.1 CR, your machine does not seem to see the > updates for the i686 arch, although the x86_64 directory does contain them. > > Do you have an exclude=*.i686 someplace in your yum setup. > > The same directory that contains dbus-libs-1.2.24-5.el6_1.x86_64 also > contains dbus-libs-1.2.24-5.el6_1.i686.rpm ... you are seeing one > (x86_64) and not the other (i686). OK but why when there are no i686 packages installed on the machine is it trying to look for them? If I remove the offending x86_64 packages and put the base equivalent on then the issue goes away, but I shouldn't have to do this step.