On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 16:49 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 14:50 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > >> 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 > > Thanks. That did it. By the way it is multilib_policy :-) > > >From the behavior I have seen, I assume 'all' is the default if not > specified. Wouldn't it be better if 'best' is made the default > option? Most people will probably not be aware of this option (when > the new yum hit the street) and therefore will be installing > unnecessary i386 packages on their x86_64 machines. ??? > all has been the default behavior forever. We're experimenting with changing that default in fedora, but I think it is a bad idea to change defaults in the middle of a centos release. -sv