On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 14:50 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
(3) On an x86_64 system with *no* i386 packages installed, the issue reported in
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2008-June/002961.html
did not occur (issue = 'yum install httpd-devel' installs both x86_64 and i386 rpm's). Only the x86_64 rpm was installed.
(4) However, 'yum install firefox' installs both arches unless '.x86_86' is specified (on a clean x86_64 only system).
To add a bit more observation in this area...
When doing a 'yum groupinstall "foo bar", some of the groups do pull i386 packages. Again, this is on a pure x86_64 system.
I will stop this type of test unless there is something else I need to try out. At lease there was some improvement with the current version of yum.
yum 3.2.17 and above set: mutlilib_policy=best in yum.conf under [main] and it will only install x86_64 pkgs.
this is documented in the yum.conf file man page.
-sv