> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Akemi Yagi
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:08 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: Yum install preferred arch only
>
> On 8/7/07, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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...
>
> You can exclude=*.i386 in the repo file.
Yeah, I am doing that now and while it is ok I was wondering if there
was a way to set an "affinity" to the target architecture so one can
still explicitly install the .i386 version by explicitly specifying
it on the install, and if there were any dependencies to i386 versions
they would be resolved.
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.
-Ross
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