[CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only
Mark Hull-Richter
mhullrich at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 18:00:41 UTC 2007
On 8/7/07, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com> wrote:
>
> I have a couple 64-bit CentOS 5 installations here and was wondering if
> there was a yum option to have it install only x86_64 arch by default
> if no arch is specified.
>
> I tired of having to append .x86_64 on all package names I only want
> the x86_64 versions of, if I want the i386 versions too I would add
> the .i386 package to the list...
>
Unless you are planning to run only stripped-down systems, that can
cause trouble. A lot of packages do not have 64-bit versions and need
(lots of) 32-bit support packages and libraries to run. E.g., web
browsers (whose 64-bit versions run just fine until you need a plug-in
that's only available in 32-bit versions).
Just a comment - I don't have a specific solution (yet).
mhr
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