I ran a very similar command (and put it in my previous reply on this thread)... that ultimately led to me resolving the issue.
Thanks, Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:19 AM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Slightly OT (CentOS, not RHEL): conflict updating perl Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] wrote: > I am trying to run a yum update on my CentOS 5.5 box. Everything goes > well until it tries to update perl: > > > > ======================================================================== > ============================================================ > > Package Arch Version > Repository Size > > ======================================================================== > ============================================================ > > Updating: > > perl x86_64 > 4:5.8.8-32.el5_5.2 updates > 12 M > > > > My server is running x86_64, but the only perl on it (installed during > the normal OS install) is i386 - and to top it off, it seems to think it > has it installed twice: This would have shown the truth of the matter: [r...@penguin ~]# rpm -q perl --qf '%{name} %{arch} \n' perl x86_64 [r...@penguin ~]# I went to some trouble on this system to ensure it's amd-64 only, but I have a couple of new systems, recently installed, where I took no such care and they are fully up to date, so maybe CentOS has fixed the problem. Or, I was lucky. -- Cheers John -- spambait [email protected] [email protected] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
