[CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only

Tue Aug 7 20:17:31 UTC 2007
Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Peter Kjellstrom
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:34 PM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Yum install preferred arch only
> 
> On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> ...
> > Maybe it's time for Yet-Another-Yum-Plugin YAYP, I will call it
> > yum-arch-affinity and will only select the target arch of a package
> > if multiple versions resolve, and if only 1 resolves to allow that
> > to go through, this should allow packages that have explicit archs
> > to resolve through.
> 
> Sounds like a nice plugin, when do you expect to have it ready? ;-)

Would you like a copy when I get it done?

I'll post it to devel and maybe it can get included in extras or plus...

Let me get a SRPM of a similar plugin, maybe installonlyn and see if
I can get it working.

-Ross

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