On 02/12/2012 01:06 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > > Rob Kampen wrote: >> On 02/12/2012 12:43 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: >>> On 02/12/2012 10:15 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >>>> Rob Kampen wrote: >>>>> I am trying to install some perl libs and find the ones from CentOS >>>>> mirrors are correctly loading the x86_64 versions, but the rpmforge ones >>>>> are only i386 or i686 ones - any reason why?? >>>> did you check the rpmforge.repo configuration? >>> yeah, seems identical to another x86_64 server that is working just fine. >>> The server with the problem is a rebuild and used to be a i386. >>> Thus there is history on the system that is i386 - but the OS, rpm, yum, >>> apache, php etc are all x86_64 and as mentioned, there is no problem >>> pulling files from the CentOS repos - I did need to change >>> /etc/rpm/platform to get these working and wondered if rpmforge has a >>> similar place it goes to, to determine the arch?? >> Okay - it seems the centos mirrorlist repos use $basearch which comes >> from the /etc/rpm/platform file and rpmforge uses $arch which comes from?? > I have $basearch for rpmforge.repo as well, both on C5 and C6. I did the changes to mirrorlist for rpmforge so it referenced $basearch and still no joy. I then did a "yum clean all" and it came right - I think yum is not set up to deal with a change in the arch, thus did not reload the repo file lists. All is now well. Thanks all for the suggestions. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos