[CentOS] URGENT: Skip installation ix86 packages from kickstart on 64bit arch?
Robinson Tiemuqinke
hahaha_30k at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 25 18:45:35 UTC 2007
Garrick and all,
The format is not good in my former email, I'll
repost it again now.
--David
%packages
# 'base' and 'core' are always selected, here we just
specified explicitly
@base
@core
@system-tools
-bluez-hcidump
-bluez-gnome
-bluez-libs
-bluez-utils
-ccid ## Generic USB CCID smart card reader driver
-coolkey ## Linux Driver support for the CoolKey and
CAC products.
-pcmciautils
-wpa_supplicant
-ppp
-rp-pppoe
-arptables_jf ## Userspace control program for the
arptables network filter
-dhcpv6_client ## DHCPv6 client
-finger
-gpm
-microcode_ctl
-NetworkManager
-oddjob
-oddjob-libs
-prelink
-rdate
-rsh
-talk
-zisofs-tools
-samba-client
-samba-common
--- Garrick Staples <garrick at usc.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:11:52AM -0700, Robinson
> Tiemuqinke alleged:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has any one know how to skip ix86 packages from
> > installation in Centos kickstart? Most of our
> machines
> > have 64bit Intel/AMD CPUs, and it make non-sense
> to
> > still keep 32bit compatibility. Even worse of i*86
> > packages is, when upgrade we have to recompile
> both
> > ix86 version and x86_64 version to get an
> automatic
> > yum upgrade.
> >
> > I know we could use 'exclude' option to exclude
> i*86
> > packages from yum calculation/upgrade; But, if
> this
> > can be extended to kickstart?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
>
> That's funny. I never get 32bit packages on my
> kickstarted x86_64
> boxes. I have to install them seperately on %post.
>
> --
> Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin
> University of Southern California
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