[CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  On my centos boxes whenever I try to install packages I get a mix of
> packages from the repos that are both i386 and x86_64 in
> archictecture:

Jump to CentOS 6. Wait, that's not out yet. Buy an RHEL 6 license or
test with Scientic Linux 6 until CentOS 6 is out. The default behavior
of yum has changed, and it's just safier and easier to work with an
architecture that does the "more selective" thing by deffault.