On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 18:27 +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:

Hi all,

If I try yum grouplist "FTP Server" I get the next large output: Dependencies Resolved

============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: OpenIPMI x86_64 1.4.14-1.4E.13 base 207 k aspell i386 12:0.50.5-3.fc3 base 314 k bluez-libs i386 2.10-2 base 38 k cyrus-sasl-plain i386 2.1.19-5.EL4 base 27 k dapl x86_64 1.2.0-1 base 99 k dmraid i386 1.0.0.rc11-3_RHEL4_U4 base 396 k e2fsprogs i386 1.35-12.4.EL4 base 771 k glibc i686 2.3.4-2.25 base 5.1 M gpm i386 1.20.1-71.RHEL4 base 172 k keyutils x86_64 1.0-2 base 36 k libgcc i386 3.4.6-3 base 59 k libibverbs x86_64 1.0.3-1 base 18 k libmthca x86_64 1.0.2-1 base 17 k libsdp x86_64 1:0.9.0-1 base 28 k libtermcap i386 2.0.8-39 base 12 k lksctp-tools x86_64 1.0.2-6.4E.1 base 60 k mcelog x86_64 1:0.4-1.12.EL base 12 k nano x86_64 1.2.4-1 base 337 k nss_db i386 2.2-29 base 512 k nss_ldap i386 226-17 update 1.0 M pam_ccreds i386 1-3 base 28 k pam_krb5 i386 2.1.8-1 base 81 k pam_passwdqc i386 0.7.5-2 base 33 k pam_smb i386 1.1.7-5 base 32 k readline i386 4.3-13 base 175 k redhat-lsb i386 3.0-8.EL base 19 k rsh x86_64 0.17-25.4 base 42 k tcp_wrappers i386 7.6-37.2 base 96 k tcsh x86_64 6.13-9 base 609 k telnet x86_64 1:0.17-31.EL4.3 base 58 k utempter i386 0.5.5-5 base 21 k xmlsec1-openssl i386 1.2.6-3 base 58 k Installing for dependencies: OpenIPMI-libs x86_64 1.4.14-1.4E.13 base 435 k audit-libs i386 1.0.14-1.EL4 base 36 k cracklib i386 2.7-29 base 26 k cracklib-dicts i386 2.7-29 base 1.3 M cyrus-sasl i386 2.1.19-5.EL4 base 1.2 M db4 i386 4.2.52-7.1 base 1.5 M device-mapper i386 1.02.07-4.0.RHEL4 base 465 k expat i386 1.95.7-4 base 69 k fontconfig i386 2.2.3-7.centos4 base 117 k freetype i386 2.1.9-4.el4 base 763 k gdbm i386 1.8.0-24 base 26 k glib2 i386 2.4.7-1 base 476 k kernel-ib x86_64 1.0-1 base 66 k keyutils-libs x86_64 1.0-2 base 17 k krb5-libs i386 1.3.4-33 base 480 k libgcrypt i386 1.2.0-3 base 153 k libgpg-error i386 1.0-1 base 45 k librdmacm x86_64 0.9.0-1 base 28 k libselinux i386 1.19.1-7.2 base 55 k libsepol i386 1.1.1-2 base 28 k libstdc++ i386 3.4.6-3 base 281 k libxml2 i386 2.6.16-6 base 619 k libxslt i386 1.1.11-1 base 436 k ncurses i386 5.4-13 base 1.5 M net-snmp-libs x86_64 5.1.2-11.EL4.7 base 1.8 M openldap i386 2.2.13-6.4E base 236 k openssl i686 0.9.7a-43.14 update 1.1 M pam i386 0.77-66.17 base 1.8 M xmlsec1 i386 1.2.6-3 base 149 k xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 update 378 k xorg-x11-libs i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 update 2.7 M zlib i386 1.2.1.2-1.2 base 44 k

Transaction Summary

Install 64 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 29 M Is this ok [y/N]:

But a simple yum groupinfo "FTP Server" reveals:

Group: FTP Server Required Groups: Base Mandatory Packages: vsftpd

So, the next step I've tried is: yum install vsftpd and... the output is:

Dependencies Resolved

============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: vsftpd x86_64 2.0.1-5.EL4.5 base 125 k

Transaction Summary

Install 1 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 125 k Is this ok [y/N]:

¿Why this enormous difference between dependencies depending on used method (yum install or yum groupinstall)?

I've checked my system with up2date -u and all it's currently updated.

yum groupinfo "FTP Server" says that vsftp and "Base" ...

Base is the minimal install Recommended.

It wants to install all those i386 packages as requires for Base ...

I would recommend that for a server you put a:

exclude=*.i386 *.i586 *.i686

in yum.conf and only install i386 packages if absolutely required by your server.

(I would also see if I could remove other i386/i586/i686 packages.)