On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 10:36 -0500, Erick Perez wrote:
> How can I make sure my x86_64 system does not download i686 or i386
> stuff? Does it need to?
Maybe ... :)
Not everything that can install from the x86_64 tree is x86_64.
OpenOffice.org is one package, there are others, that are i386 only. If
you don't need any of the i386/i586/i686 packages you can remove them
and prevent them form trying to be installed.
The first thing you need to do is add this to a file called .rpmmacros
in your user's home directory:
%_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}
Then when you do "rpm -q" items, it will also show you the arch.
Then you can do:
rpm -qa | grep i[3,4,5,6]86 | sort
to see what x86 packages are installed on your machine.
Then you can see if you have to have them, or can remove them.
THIS IS CRITICAL :) ... If you remove x86 type packages where both x86
and x86_64 packages are installed, reinstall the x86_64 packages after
you are done ... this is because a file can only belong to 1 package, so
some files you need may have belonged to the package you removed, and
will be reinstalled when you reinstall the x86_64 packages.
If you can get rid of all the x86 packages, you can then add this
to /etc/yum.conf
exclude=*.i386 *.i586 *.i686
You will then not add anything except x86_64 packages with yum.
Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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