yum tries to install i686 on x86_64 system
Michal Jaegermann
michal at harddata.com
Mon Mar 22 15:49:48 UTC 2010
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:40:40AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:31 -0500, Rex wrote:
> >
> > It's often broken dependencies that are to blame.
>
> How exactly?
>
> Builds for x86_64 and i686 are done from the same src.rpm and are released
> at once. They get the same version-release and appear in the multi-arch
> x86_64 repo at the same time.
That is a theory. In practice I have seen on various occasions that
mirrors may have one architecture available, normally i386, and the
other one is delayed up to a day. If you will get such mirror then
dependency resolution may get somewhat funky. Waiting with updates
should be enough.
Michal
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