On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:29 PM, German Andres Pulido Franco gpulido@gtscolombia.com wrote:
Hi!
I have some servers, all running centos 5.2 x64 with current updates. None of the servers has installed packages that are not part of the centos regular packages. They were installed using the "server" packages at install, therefore there is no X server, GNOME, KDE or any other non-server stuff. However, I recently noted that the servers have the x64 _and_ the i386 versions of some packages installed, for instance: krb5-libs-1.6.1-25.el5_2.1 and pam_krb5-2.2.14-1.el5_2.1. My question is: If I have no 32 bits software installed on these machines, why are such libraries installed? and can they be safely removed from the servers?
There is a known issue with yum. See, for example,
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2008-June/002961.html http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-July/060236.html
At any rate, you want to remove all *.i?86 packages and then add this line:
exclude=*.i386 *.i686
in /etc/yum.conf to maintain a pure 64-bit system.
Akemi