On 11/23/2012 06:46 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote on Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:11:17 -0600: > > Thank you both for the replies. > This was my own mistake combined with some depsolving weirdness of yum. > > I have 386 and 686 excluded from the repo's because of the greediness to > install all versions of a package. At least in earlier versions of the 5.x > series. > > When I first hit the error I checked and commented out the line. But there > was no change with the error. I looked on mirror.centos.org and there was > no glibc-common.i686. (Didn't look in updates then, but did now, there's > really none.) > > My mistake was that I commented out the exclude for the base repo, but not > for updates. After commenting out for updates there is no problem to get > glibc.i686. And it doesn't ask for glibc-common. > > Seems there is a dependency in the i686 package that is resolved by the > x86_64 package of glibc-common, but as I was accidentally trying to > install an older version of glibc.i686 the installed newer version didn't There is a better way to only get the i[3,6]86 packages you want and not get the rest. Use this option in yum.conf INSTEAD of excluding i386/i686 packages: multilib_policy=best Here is some info on this option: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Software_Management_Guide/ch04s07.html The only problem is that for CentOS-5.x anaconda initially installs with the equivalent setting of "all" ... so what I do on new installs is a minimal install, remove i[3,6]86 rpms, add "multilib_policy=best" to /etc/yum.conf, then configure the server the way I want. You can add specific i[3,6]86 packages and they will continue to get updates, etc ... BUT, only x86_64 will be used when installing new packages unless you specifically also install i[3,6]86 This is the default for CentOS-6, except anaconda actually installs this way too, so you don't need to remove i[3,6]86 packages. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20121123/c18797b4/attachment-0005.sig>