Thanks Jerry, Anish. That was it. Removing the "glibc-devel" package from "/etc/yum/olpc-exclude" did the trick. But me just curious, why is "/etc/yum/olpc-exclude" needed? [ Also, on a side-note, my original issue of compiling "avahi" on ARM still remains unsolved :: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2012-July/002167.html">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2012-July/002167.html</a> ] Regards, Ajay <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Jerry Vonau <<a href="mailto:jerry@laptop.org.au" target="_blank">jerry@laptop.org.au</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Most likely that is it, the exclude= list is created from the list of rpms that are not found in fedora's/koji's repos. Jerry<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> <div class="gmail_quote">On 12 July 2012 15:50, Anish Mangal <<a href="mailto:anish@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">anish@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">could it be a problem with mirros? <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/dx3/rpms/i386/os/" target="_blank">http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/dx3/rpms/i386/os/</a> btw, there are a few g libc rpm's present there ^^ (dx repo) but i386 arch. I have to check why they were created. Don't think they should be blocking the update though. <div><div> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Ajay Garg <<a href="mailto:ajay@activitycentral.com" target="_blank">ajay@activitycentral.com</a>> wrote: > Jon, > > Doing "sudo yum clean all", followed by "sudo yum list glibc*" has the same > result. > > Also, all packages at > <a href="http://mock.laptop.org/repos/koji.dist-f14-armv5tel/RPMS" target="_blank">http://mock.laptop.org/repos/koji.dist-f14-armv5tel/RPMS</a> are 0 bytes. > > > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Jon Nettleton <<a href="mailto:jon.nettleton@gmail.com" target="_blank">jon.nettleton@gmail.com</a>> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Ajay Garg <<a href="mailto:ajay@activitycentral.com" target="_blank">ajay@activitycentral.com</a>> >> wrote: >> > Thanks Jon for the reply. >> > >> > Here is the output :: >> > >> > >> > >> > ################################################################################# >> > [olpc@xo-c5-b9-6c rpmbuild]$ sudo yum list glibc* >> > >> > Loaded plugins: downloadonly >> > Installed Packages >> > glibc.armv5tel 2.13-2.1 @koji.dist-f14-armv5tel/$releasever >> > glibc-common.armv5tel 2.13-2.1 @koji.dist-f14-armv5tel/$releasever >> > >> > ################################################################################# >> > >> >> Oh that is very strange because the package does exist there. >> <a href="http://mock.laptop.org/repos/koji.dist-f14-armv5tel/RPMS" target="_blank">http://mock.laptop.org/repos/koji.dist-f14-armv5tel/RPMS</a> >> >> perhaps you should try a sudo yum clean all, then sudo yum list 'glibc*' >> >> -Jon > > > </div></div><div>> _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > </div>-- Anish | <a href="mailto:anish@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">anish@sugarlabs.org</a> <div><div>_______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div></div></blockquote></div>