[email protected] wrote:
Eric Sisolak wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Chris Adams <[email protected]>
wrote:
I updated a couple of servers from mostly-up-to-date RHEL 5.3 to the
current RHEL 5.4+updates via "yum update", and I got a bunch of bogus
dependencies added in.
On a 32 bit server, yum wanted to add amanda (backup software). �On a
64
bit server, yum wanted to add KDE, GTK, Ruby, and a whole bunch more
(on
a server without X installed).
[snip]
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Chris Adams <[email protected]>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
I had something similar happen to me several months ago. I could not
figure out why "yum update" was bringing X as a dependency for an
update. Like many mysterious yum issues, I was able to clear it up by
running "yum clean all" and then running the update again.
I've started wondering why yum has started to offer to install 32-bit
stuff on my pure 64-bit Tikanga clone. It happened yesterday when I
wanted to install expect, but not today when I tried to reproduce it
with emacs. It's quite possible it's something I've done. It's also
quite possible it's not something I've done.
If others report similar experiences, I can stop wondering.
I don't think this will help with the OP's problem, but it does help keep
64bit systems clean of 32bit unless you specifically as for it:
in /etc/yum.conf add:
multilib_policy=best
I'd be curious to know if you already have it and it still did the 32bit
offer.
I didn't have that, I had
exactarch=1
which I thought should do that, and
exclude=*.i[3-6]86
except it was slightly mangled, didn't cause a error but it might not
work as expected.
I think I saw changed behaviour, but hadn't arrived at the point of
commenting on it until the OP's concern which seemed vaguely sort of
similar.
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Cheers
John
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