Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote the following on 2/13/2012 9:11 PM: > why do you think there's a problem? if you have an x86_64 system, you > are expected to use x86_64 perl, and that's what you have in the os > and updates dir for that arch, with the newer version in updates. Same > if you have an i386 system. Apparently centos extras provides the i386 > package for people who want that on an x86_64 system, although the > version provided is the older one. ... > The only possible "bug" is that extras could carry the latest i386 > package. I have dozens of x86_64 systems. On none of them did I manually install the i386 perl package. However, they all seem to have it installed. It seems that in many cases CentOS installs both an i386 and an x86_64 package when only the base package is requested, so I have thought nothing of it. install.log shows that the x86_64bit package was the only one initially installed, yum indicates that the i386 package was installed later (looks like during a yum update, possibly a dependency). Is this a past mistake in the repo that is only rearing its head when there is a mismatch between the x86_64 version in the update repo and the i386 version in the extra repo? Should there even exist a version in the extra repo? If so, it seems it should certainly be updated. --Blake