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