how do I get yum to update x86_64?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Dec 4 06:11:06 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 23:46 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
> I'm running fc3 - x86_64.
> 
> yum still only finds i386 updates. I've even changed $basearch in yum.conf 
> to x86_64 ( though it should be able to figure that out, shouldn't it?).
> 
> What I'd like yum to do is find updates for both i386 and x86_64.  But I 
> only have a few i386 programs installed. So if it can't do both, I'd like at 
> least to update my x86_64 programs.

Do you only have the i386 repositories configured?

if you do yum list available

can you see packages listed as x86_64 ?

-sv







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