On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 at 11:22am, Akemi Yagi wrote >>>> Any way to simply not install them when doing an install? >>> >>> Unfortunately, not that I'm aware of. >> >> There is a known issue with yum. See, for example, >> >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2008-June/002961.html >> >> And a newer version of yum has a fix for that: >> >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2008-June/002967.html >> >> For people who are interested, yum-3.2.17-0_beta is in the *testing* >> repo at this moment. > > When Joseph said "when doing an install", I assumed that meant at system > install time. I know of no way of doing a pure x86_64 install via anaconda > (although I'd love to be told I'm wrong on that). You are correct I believe. anaconda is another story. It might depend on the package selection but "pure" x86_64 installation is problematic. If I remember correctly, even with a minimal install, a few i386 packages were installed. Akemi