On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > On 02/02/2011 04:29 PM, John Doe wrote: >> # yum list | grep "tcp_wrappers\|nfs-utils" >> nfs-utils.x86_64 1:1.0.9-47.el5_5 installed >> nfs-utils-lib.x86_64 1.0.8-7.6.el5 installed >> tcp_wrappers.i386 7.6-40.7.el5 installed >> tcp_wrappers.x86_64 7.6-40.7.el5 installed >> nfs-utils-lib.i386 1.0.8-7.6.el5 base >> nfs-utils-lib-devel.i386 1.0.8-7.6.el5 base >> nfs-utils-lib-devel.x86_64 1.0.8-7.6.el5 base >> tcp_wrappers-devel.x86_64 7.6-57.el5.rfx rpmforge-extras >> tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 7.6-57.el5.rfx rpmforge-extras > ... >> Any idea what is going on or how I can clean up this mess...? >> Do you have to block all i386 packages? > > I can guess that the rcp_weappers-libs and -devel are not being masked. > Try running yum with a -d7 and see if it clears up what is going on The problem is probably that RPMforge's repository for x86_64 does not include matching i386 components, even if the out-of-date components for RHEL included both in the same repository. I ran into this headlong with Subversion: My system kept trying to reach back for the subverion.i386 and subversion-devel.i386 components, even though I 'd only asked for "subverison". One option is to exclude them in yum.conf. Another is to exclude them in your CentOS yum files.