Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
> <snip>
>> I'm looking into this.
>> The original RHEL5 x86_64 had both perl.i386 and perl.x86_64.  I know we had 
>> left the perl.i386 in SL 5.2 because of this upgrade problem.
>> But with Update 3, there were several packages that changed arch, so I really 
>> need to update the update page, with more than just the perl update.  I'll be 
>> doing that today.  But for now, here is how to do it
>>
>> 1 - update files in your yum.repos.d directory
>> 2 - yum clean all
>> 3 - yum update yum
>> 4 - yum remove perl.i386
>> 5 - yum update glibc
>> 6 - yum update
>>
>> There will actually be 3 or 4 more steps because there are some other 
>> packages that are troublesome.  I'll reply to this when I have it done.
> 
> In case it isn't already on your list I'm seeing something odd with dbus, 
> on a fresh install of sl53 on x86_64 I seem to get an old version of 
> dbus.i386 because the latest version (which seems to be in the x86_64 
> tree) clashes over a config file...
> 

This doesn't make sense to me.  Where are you getting an "old" version 
of dbus?  They are both the same in the x86_64 directory
x86_64/SL/dbus-1.1.2-12.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64/SL/dbus-1.1.2-12.el5.x86_64.rpm
x86_64/SL/dbus-devel-1.1.2-12.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64/SL/dbus-devel-1.1.2-12.el5.x86_64.rpm
x86_64/SL/dbus-glib-0.73-8.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64/SL/dbus-glib-0.73-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
x86_64/SL/dbus-glib-devel-0.73-8.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64/SL/dbus-glib-devel-0.73-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
x86_64/SL/dbus-libs-1.1.2-12.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64/SL/dbus-libs-1.1.2-12.el5.x86_64.rpm

The installer doesn't just find some random old version of dbus from 
somewhere.
Troy
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