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

[Christopher Allen Wing]

(sorry, I'm not subscribed to the list; I'm responding from the web
archive)

I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. I made a yum repository out of the
original ISO images, and another repository containing various updates,
etc.


yum works great in general, and has been fine for the most part on x86_64;
the only problem I've run into in the past is the inability to specify a
particular architecture for a package in a yumgroups.xml file (though
that's just a limitation of the XML format used by Red Hat). Instead, I do
a manual 'yum install' if I need to specify a particular architecture
type.


In this particular case, I had installed both the i686 and the x86_64
glibc at the same time. yum only wants to update the x86_64 version when I
tell it to 'yum update'.

I'm guessing this has to do with the fact that the same package name was
installed twice (once for each architecture).

I can try reproducing it on a non-RHEL machine at some point; I don't have
one set up at the moment for testing but I guess a test case would be a
Fedora x86_64 box attempting to upgrade glibc, when both the i386 and
x86_64 glibc RPMs are installed. It should upgrade both simultaneously, if
not then it will fail like it does for me.



Thanks,

Chris Wing
wingc at engin.umich.edu




skvidal at phy.duke.edu wrote:

> Odd, I've not encountered this problem on any of my x86_64 machines
> running yum 2.0.X.
>
> What distro?
>
> -sv