[Yum] Re: yum update problem with biarch (i686/x86_64)

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 11:58 -0500, Christopher Allen Wing wrote:
> Seth:
> 
> > What version of yum? I'm sure I already asked you but I'd appreciate it
> > if you could let me know, again.
> 
> I'm using 2.0.7, with some very minor hacks (tweaking the log format,
> etc). I didn't change anything related to dependency resolution, though.
> 
> > > I'm guessing this has to do with the fact that the same package name was
> > > installed twice (once for each architecture).
> >
> > It shouldn't have any problem with that at all. I've checked on some of
> > my x86_64 machines running fc2 and yum 2.0.7 in my office and they're
> > getting glibc updates for both i686 and x86_64 by doing a yum update.
> 
> Interesting. It looks like you should be in the same situation for FC2
> that I am in for RHEL3:
> 
> 	the original FC2 x86_64 release contained:
> 		glibc-2.3.3-27.x86_64.rpm
> 		glibc-2.3.3-27.i686.rpm
> 		glibc-common-2.3.3-27.x86_64.rpm
> 
> 	the update server for FC2 contains:
> 		glibc-2.3.3-27.1.i686.rpm
> 		glibc-2.3.3-27.1.x86_64.rpm
> 		glibc-common-2.3.3-27.1.x86_64.rpm
> 
> 


okay a couple of questions.
1. is this an amd64 or a nocona?
2. what do uname -i and uname -m report?
3. what does /etc/rpm/platform have in it?
4. what does /etc/rpm/macros show?

Thanks
-sv