Now that I look, I see that epel has the 32 bit rrdtool and 
rrdtool-devel in their 64 bit repository.  It's not a big deal to put 
them in our 64 bit repository also to remain consistant.

Out of curiousity, why did you install the 32 bit version of ganglia on 
a 64 bit machine?

Troy

Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:12:56AM -0600, Troy Dawson wrote:
>> We are adding a new package to SLF 4 and 5, rrdtool.
> 
> Troy, thank you for adding rrdtool to the SL distribution,
> but there is a minor problem:
> 
> The 32-bit rrdtool is missing from the 64-bin distribution
> and yum bombs because already installed 32-bit ganglia packages
> require 32-bit librrd.so.2:
> 
> (needless to say, this trivial problem then blocks all critical
> security updates)
> 
> [root@ladd00 ~]# yum update rrdtool.i386
> Loaded plugins: kernel-module
> Repository epel is listed more than once in the configuration
> Repository epel-source is listed more than once in the configuration
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
> Setting up Update Process
> Error: No Package Matching rrdtool.i386
> [root@ladd00 ~]# yum update rrdtool.x86_64
> Loaded plugins: kernel-module
> Repository epel is listed more than once in the configuration
> Repository epel-source is listed more than once in the configuration
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: librrd.so.2 for package: ganglia-gmetad
> ---> Package rrdtool.x86_64 0:1.3.9-2.sl5 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(RRDp) for package: rrdtool
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(RRDs) for package: rrdtool
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: librrd.so.2 for package: ganglia-gmetad
> ---> Package rrdtool-perl.x86_64 0:1.3.9-2.sl5 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> ganglia-gmetad-3.0.7-1.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: librrd.so.2 is needed by package ganglia-gmetad-3.0.7-1.i386 (installed)
> Beginning Kernel Module Plugin
> Finished Kernel Module Plugin
> Error: Missing Dependency: librrd.so.2 is needed by package ganglia-gmetad-3.0.7-1.i386 (installed)
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
>                         package-cleanup --dupes
>                         rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> 


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