I understand how to remove them using ' yum remove \*.i?86 '. The
link below says that it breaks the installation of the x86_64 packages
by removing files which are shared between the architectures, i.e.
docs. How do you remove the .i?86 packages without effecting the
x86_64 packages?
James Matthews wrote:
> Frank Cox posted above this line,
> ' yum remove \*.i?86 '
>
> What I do is put the package name and then the platform. E.g
> php-cli.x86_64
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Patrick McEvoy
> <pmcevoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>
> I have just found this post regarding the removal of .i?86
> packages on a
> x86_64 machine, http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2590. I assume
> that
> these issues still exist for CentOS 5.3. Anyone have advice on how to
> remove the duplicate packages safely?
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
> Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> > Out of pure curiosity:
> > Does anybody know why both i386 and x86_64 are installed by default?
> >
> > On other x86_64 platforms I rather tend to cherrypick the i386
> > packages and install them on a case by case basis.
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 06:49, Vnpenguin <vnpenguin@xxxxxxxxx
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> >
> >> I removed all i?86 on my x86_64 servers. No problem.
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