how do I get yum to update x86_64?

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 07:47 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
> Seth Vidal wrote:
> >
> >Do you only have the i386 repositories configured?
> 
> Heres my .conf:
> 
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=fedora-release
> tolerant=1
> exactarch=0
> retries=20
> 
> [development]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/x86_64
> 
> In /etc/yum.repos.d all the .repo files have enabled=0
> 
> >if you do yum list available
> >can you see packages listed as x86_64 ?
> 
> Nope.
> They're all noarch or i386.
> 
> yum -c /etc/yum.development-fedora-main.conf  list available
> Repository development already added, not adding again
> Setting up Repo:  development
> repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> developmen: ################################################## 3767/3767
> Finished
> Available Packages
> Canna-libs.i386                          3.7p3-9                development
> Xaw3d.i386                               1.5E-1                 development
> alsa-lib.i386                            1.0.6-6                development
> anaconda-help.noarch                     10.1.0-1               development
> ....................
> 

interesting.

what does /etc/rpm/platform have in it?


-sv