On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote: > 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 As you just pointed out, multilib_policy is new as of yum 3.2.17. So as far as CentOS is concerned, it should be okay to start with the 'best' option ? (pun not intended). Akemi