[CentOS] Perl Libraries

Rob Kampen rkampen at kampensonline.com
Sat Feb 11 23:52:39 UTC 2012


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??
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