yum tries to install i686 on x86_64 system

[Michal Jaegermann]

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