On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at 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. Akemi