[CentOS] URGENT: Skip installation ix86 packages from kickstart on 64bit arch?

Wed Apr 25 18:32:50 UTC 2007
Garrick Staples <garrick at usc.edu>

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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