Hi Andy,
This is my fault. I really had thought I'd updated that page, and now
that I look at it, I didn't.
I'll update it right now. But for now, the problem is that RedHat, and
SL, originally had perl.i386 and perl.x86_64 in our initial releases
(5.0 and 5.1), but then RedHat took out perl.i386.
There is actually a few other packages where they took out the i386 version.
For your specific problem, on your x86_64 machines you need to do
yum remove perl.i386
yum clean all
rpm -Uvh
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-latest.SL.noarch.rpm
yum update yum\*
yum update
Troy
Andrew Smith wrote:
I've been upgrading from v51 to v54. I've followed the procedure on
http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.5x which
simply states:
• yum clean all
• rpm -Uvh
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-latest.SL.noarch.rpm
• yum update yum
• yum update
piece of cake.
The procedure works fine on my i386 machines, but on the x68_64 machines the yum update fails with
hundreds of errors that look like...
...
file /usr/share/man/man3/strict.3pm.gz from install of
perl-5.8.8-27.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.i386
file /usr/share/man/man3/utf8.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-27.el5.x86_64
conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.i386
...
It looks like the upgrade is trying to move me from x86_64 to i386. is there a different yum-conf that I should
be using? Help appreciated.
-Andy
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