Re: Yum in RHEL5

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 11:22 +0530, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
> On 13/03/2008, seth vidal <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  >
> >  > That's all. What am I doing wrong or missing? Any pointers will be appreciated.
> >  >
> >
> >  2. what arch is the machine where you're running yum? run these two
> >  commands for me:
> >     a. uname -m
> >     b. cat /etc/rpm/platform
> 
> That served as a pointer to the root cause. The machine (as you saw, I
> am running the repository as well as the client on the same machine
> during testing) has these details:
> 
> [root@meibok ~]# uname -m
> x86_64
> [root@meibok ~]# cat /etc/rpm/platform
> i686-redhat-linux
> 
> I changed /etc/rpm/platform to read x86_64-redhat-linux and now it
> works. Thanks!
> 
> Since /etc/rpm/platform doesn't belong to any package, now I guess I
> need to trace what creates it and see why it got a wrong entry.
> 

How did you end up with that /etc/rpm/platform file?

-sv