On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 14:50 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > 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. 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