x86_64 problems with yum, anaconda, sound fonts and xmms

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 17:42 +0000, Paul wrote:
> 
> I've found that the install wasn't sane. I tried to remove dbus-qt and
> had back that it referred to multiple packages. When I checked using rpm
> -qa, two copies of the same rpm had been installed. I've found this has
> happened with a number of packages.

For a while now, the default way that yum works is that if you don't
specify an arch on a multi-arch system, all available arches are
installed.  So if you simply did 'yum install xmms' it will install
xmms.i386 and xmms.x86_64 as well as the depchain for both.  If you
wished to only have the 64bit version, yum install xmms.x86_64.   It
pays to pay attention to the yum output and make sure it is doing what
you want.  -y leads to discoveries later of 'how the heck did that
happen?'.

[snip sound issue]

> yum is not exactly behaving itself. I've installed the livna testing rpm
> and when I run yum now, all I get is
> 
> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file from repository: livna-testing
> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from livna-testing: [Error 256] No more
> mirrors to try
> 
> This also happens if I try and use the freshrpms repo.

This is a well known bug that has since been fixed.  See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174715

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