[CentOS] Please confirm: Centos 6's Anaconda doesn't install i686 RPMs on x86_64 arch

Thu Sep 8 22:17:16 UTC 2011
Robinson Tiemuqinke <hahaha_30k at yahoo.com>

Hi all,
 
 I just like to confirm whether this is true: on x86_64 arch machines, Centos 6's anaconda/kickstart will install only noarch and x86_64 arches RPMs, and no i686 arch RPMs installed by default.  This seems like exactly different from Centos 5   --- Centos 5 anaconda/kickstart install all i[3,5,6]86, noarch, and x86_64.
 
I found the above fact from several Centos 6 kickstart installations, but like to get an 'official' confirmation from experts here, so to avoid the big mess on Centos 5 where I created my own installation repositories to filter out all i*86 and athelon RPMs for a 'pure' x86_64(&noarch) kickstart installation environment.
 
By the way, my Centos 6 installations show that yum with the default configuration will not install i686 packages on x86_64 arch as well.
 
Thanks a lot. 
 
--Guolin
 
From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>
To: centos at centos.org
Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

John Doe wrote:

>> How can I make the default KDE?
>> How can I get KDE with startx after booting to level 3?
> 
> Maybe try:
> yum info switchdesk

[tim at grover ~]$ yum info switchdesk
...
Error: No matching Packages to list

[tim at grover ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
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