[CentOS] updates issue

Sat Sep 21 19:55:33 UTC 2013
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>

 > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:21:51PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
 >> Since doing "yum update" this morning, an update that installed several
 >> packages, the updater shows me 3 packages to install:
 >>
 >> hpijs-1:3.12.4-4.el6_4.1 (x86_64)
 >> hplip-common-3.12.4-4.el6_4.1 (x86_64)
 >> hplip-libs-3.12.4-4.el6_4.1 (x86_64)
 >>
 >> but when I attempt to actually run the update I get:
 >>
 >> hplip-libs-3.12.4-4.el6.i686 requires libsane.so.1
 >> hplip-libs-3.12.4-4.el6.i686 requires hplip-common = 3.12.4-4.el6 : 
Success - empty transaction
 >>
 >> this is a 64-bit computer running 6.4 x86_64, and none of these 3 
packages
 >> as installed is i686 they are all x86_64.
 >>
 >> So, why would I be getting errors saying that the 32-bit packages have
 >> certain requirements that aren't being met? there are no such 32-bit
 >> packages on this computer.
 >>
 >> # yum list installed | grep -y hplip-libs
 >> hplip-libs.x86_64       3.12.4-4.el6    @cr
 >>


Fred Smith wrote:
> No takers on this question?
>
> One bit of added info: ALL of the SANE packages on the system are 64-bit.
>
> why is it complaining of 32-bit dependency failures?


please don't top-post.

you should provide more info to help people help you: repos configured 
including priorities, exact output of the yum command perhaps with some 
level of the -d switch.