Thanks Johnny, I'll try that and see how much more I can reduce a minimum install. On 7/16/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote: > 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 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBEumhETKkMgmrBY7MRAtpiAKCI6ciewylVZEfsRfKetSqQg5PS1wCfQ4en > QY/tUX31klWD1GOyIkZr3Ns= > =3xTM > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------