Hi Chris,
This is a feature of yum in RHEL5 and SL5.
I just double checked to see if this was fixed with 5.4. Nope.
Why does it do that?
Because at some point yum and/or RedHat decided that would be the thing
to do so developers would quit whining about not having their 32 bit
libraries.
(Don't roll your eyes too much. There are plenty of developers/users
here on the scientific-linux-users list that have complained because
their favorite 32 bit library wasn't installed by default on a 64 bit
machine)
I have checked Fedora 11, and it only installs the arch that you are
running, and it is almost the same version of yum that is in RHEL 5.4,
so I'm thinking it is a feature put in by RedHat.
Could I track down and change yum so that it doesn't do this? Yes.
Am I going to do it? No.
Why? Because that would change the functionality of yum on SL5. This
could unexpected results. The one expected result that I don't want is
that when someone does an x86_64 install, they would get different
packages after the change than before the change.
How to really fix it?
First complain upstream to RedHat. I do know that this was brought up
to RedHat at the Summit when discussing RHEL 6. If this feature makes
it into the main RHEL, it will make it into SL.
If it is possible for there to be an easy fix so that we could make a
SL_ rpm, that would be good. But I personally will not dig through yum
to find that fix, I just have too much other stuff to do. But if
someone has an easy fix, I wouldn't mind wrapping it into an SL_ rpm.
Thanks
Troy
Chris Tooley wrote:
Hello all,
It's me again with an annoying question.
When I try to install subversion on a 64bit machine with dag and
sl-security repos enabled I get these sorts of results:
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[r...@machine yum.repos.d]# uname -rm
2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 x86_64
[r...@machine yum.repos.d]# yum install subversion
Loaded plugins: kernel-module
sl-base
| 1.1 kB 00:00
primary.xml.gz
| 905 kB 00:00
sl-base 3409/3409
dag
| 1.1 kB 00:00
primary.xml.gz
| 3.4 MB 00:01
dag 9353/9353
sl-security
| 951 B 00:00
primary.xml.gz
| 234 kB 00:00
sl-security 693/693
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package subversion.x86_64 0:1.6.5-0.1.el5.rf set to be updated
---> Package subversion.i386 0:1.4.2-4.el5_3.1 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Beginning Kernel Module Plugin
Finished Kernel Module Plugin
Dependencies Resolved
===========================================================================================================
Package Arch Version
Repository Size
===========================================================================================================
Installing:
subversion x86_64 1.6.5-0.1.el5.rf
dag 6.8 M
subversion i386 1.4.2-4.el5_3.1
sl-security 2.3 M
Transaction Summary
===========================================================================================================
Install 2 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 9.1 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!
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Is there a reason why yum wants to install the i386 version of
subversion on an x86_64 machine? Have I misconfigured something somewhere?
contents of sl-security.repo:
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[sl-security]
name=SL 5 security updates
baseurl=http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/53/$basearch/updates/security
http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/53/$basearch/updates/security
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/53/$basearch/updates/security
#mirrorlist=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-security-53.txt
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
# To use priorities you must have yum-priorities installed
priority=10
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl5
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-csieh
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dawson
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-jpolok
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
..............................................................................
contents of dag.repo:
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[dag]
name=DAG rpms
baseurl=http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag/
http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag/
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag/
enabled=1
# To use priorities you must have yum-priorities installed
priority=30
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Please let me know if you need more information. I can selectively
install the x86_64 package by:
yum install subversion.x86_64
so it's OK in the end, but it seems kind of weird to me to install an
i386 package in x86_64.
The same thing happens with xdelta too, but the i386 package is from
sl-base instead of sl-security.
Thanks,
~Chris
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