[CentOS] Yum installed perl on CentOS 5.11 64 bit

[Leon Fauster]

Am 24.11.2014 um 17:28 schrieb Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>:
> On 11/24/2014 09:52 AM, Leon Fauster wrote:
>> Am 24.11.2014 um 13:35 schrieb Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>:
>>> 
>>> What you need to do after install if you want x86_64 only is this:
>>> 
>>> 1.  Modify .rpmmacros for root user and any user you want to see the
>>> arch of packages with this value (in a .rpmmacros in the user's home
>>> directory):
>>> 
>>> %_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}
>>> 
>>> 2.  Do this query (after you adjust .rpmmacros per step one) to see any
>>> 32 bit packages installed:
>>> 
>>> rpm -qa | grep i[3,6]86 | sort
>>> 
>>> 3.  If you are sure you want to remove all the 32 packages, you would do:
>>> 
>>> yum remove $(rpm -qa | grep i[3,6]86)
>> 
>> 
>> AFAIK: 
>> 
>> yum remove glibc.i686 
>> 
>> would be enough :-)
>> 
>> 
>>> 4. Then edit /etc/yum.conf and add this line to set "multilib_policy" to
>>> "best":
>>> 
>>> multilib_policy=best
>> 
>> 
>> or
>> 
>> exclude = *.i?86
>> 
>> if such packages are generally not welcome.
> 
> well, the difference is that you can have SOME but not all using the
> "multilib_policy".
> 
> You can install a couple of i686 packages because you want them and not
> get all multilib packages.
> 
> But whatever approach one wants is fine.


sure. 


BTW - some x86_64 package files get "touched" by un/installing the corresponding 
i?86 packages. I usually reinstall the x86_64 package after removing the i?86 
package if rpm -V %{NAME} shows such "differences" - for example timestamp mismatch.


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LF