Hello Johan,

thanks but i know that. I just want keep im my system packages x86_64. Why yum return packages i386 when $basearch is x86_64?

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Eduardo Silvestre nfsi telecom, lda.

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Johan Swensson" kupo@kupo.se To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:42:07 PM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [CentOS] Double packages

yum install ncurses-devel.x86_64

----- Original Message ----- From: "Eduardo Silvestre" eduardo.silvestre@nfsi.pt To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:33:08 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: [CentOS] Double packages

Hello,

i'm trying install some packages with x64_86 architecture and got same packages doubling (32 and 64 bits). How can i force yum just install packages x64_86 based?

[root@www pfqueue-0.5.6]# yum install ncurses-devel Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

• base: mirrors.nfsi.pt
• updates: mirrors.nfsi.pt
• addons: mirrors.nfsi.pt
• extras: mirrors.nfsi.pt

Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package ncurses-devel.x86_64 0:5.5-24.20060715 set to be updated ---> Package ncurses-devel.i386 0:5.5-24.20060715 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: ncurses-devel x86_64 5.5-24.20060715 base 1.7 M ncurses-devel i386 5.5-24.20060715 base 1.6 M

Transaction Summary

Install 2 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 3.3 M

Add exclude=*.i?86 to /etc/yum.conf You may still need some i386 packages on x86_64. When you do, use yum --disableexcludes=all ... HTH

On 05/21/2009 07:06 PM, Eduardo Silvestre wrote:

thanks but i know that. I just want keep im my system packages x86_64. Why yum return packages i386 when $basearch is x86_64?

There are many apps that are still 32bit, and work fine under a x86_64 host - also, there are many apps that are better run 32bit irrespective of what arch you are running on the host. Yum facilitates that, its a choice you can control ( as many have already pointed out to you ).