[CentOS] Need help resolving yum update issues on mixed architecture system
John Doe
jdmls at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 25 11:13:34 UTC 2014
From: Alfred von Campe <alfred at von-campe.com>
> I have been using 32-bit CentOS since the 4.X days without a real need for
> 64-bit, but in preparation for CentOS 7, I have installed 64-bit CentOS 6 on a
> test system to qualify all our builds. However, in order to build some of our
> current 32-bit applications, I had to install some i686 packages, including
> glib.
>
> Now when I try to do a "yum update" on this test system, I get the
> dreaded "Error: Multilib version problems found." issue. I have
> tried following the instructions from yum (--exclude=glib.i686, yum check, etc.)
> to resolve this to no avail. What is the best way to proceed with the "yum
> update" so that all (64-bit and 32-bit) packages are updated?
Maybe try 'protected_multilib' in yum.conf (see man).
JD
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