[CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures

[Johnny Hughes]

On 03/08/2011 09:51 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
> ok that's great! thank you!
> 
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:29 AM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
>>> But my question remains is there any way to instruct
>>> yum to automatically select the right package architecture
>>> through a setting in one of the config files rather than
>>> having to specify which architecture you are working with
>>> each time.

You would put this in your /etc/yum.conf file

exclude=*.i386 *.i686

I would also do this:

yum reinstall \*

The reason being that sometimes the /usr/share/ items (shared between
BOTH packages) get removed when removing multi arch RPMS.

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