Re: (SL6.3) yum picks wrong qemu version upgrade

[MT Julianto]

On 16 November 2012 00:01, Vladimir Mosgalin <mosga...@vm10124.spb.edu>wrote:

> This seems quite wrong - qemu wants to update itself to i686 version!
>
> # yum update
> Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, fastestmirror, ps,
> refresh-packagekit
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> epel/metalink                                            |  12 kB     00:00
> epel-debuginfo/metalink                                  |  13 kB     00:00
> epel-testing/metalink                                    |  12 kB     00:00
> epel-testing-debuginfo/metalink                          |  12 kB     00:00
>

Do you really need to use epel-testing repo?
This might the source of your problem.
For me, epel repo is enough.



> ---> Package qemu-img.x86_64 2:0.12.1.2-2.295.el6_3.2 will be updated
> ---> Package qemu-img.i686 2:1.2.0-19.el6.1 will be an update
>

Do you have i686 version installed before updating?
What is the result of
 yum list installed | grep qemu

Regards,
-Tito.