Jesse Keating wrote:
On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:08, John Summerfield
<debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Will Woods wrote:
On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:41 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
??
While running a new update to try to reproduce the problem, I see
it's installing lots of unwanted 386 packages. This leads to the
question, why did yum-basearchonly get removed?
If memory serves, it's been obsoleted by the multilib_policy feature
in yum. It defaults to 'best', so 'yum install PKG' already does what
you want it to - only installs PKG.x86_64, not PKG.i386.
See here:
http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/long-wanted-feature-added-to-yum/
also:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-February/msg00168.html
Thanks Will.
According to the second, it defaults to "all" which I think means
"worst" or "bloated":-)
Now, if someone could _document_ it. In the package, not some place in
the longlostweb..
Fedora configs default to best. I could have sworn that this was
documented in the yum or yum.conf man pages.
--jes
I did not recognise this description (in the man page) as what I wanted:
multilib_policy
Can be set to 'all' or 'best'. All means install all
possible arches for any package you want
to install. Therefore yum install foo will install
foo.i386 and foo.x86_64 on x86_64, if it is
available. Best means install the best arch for this
platform, only.
As you can see, it doesn't describe what the default is. I think the
whole description is flawed, both the key word and its description will
go over the heads of most users, even those who know to read the man page.
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Cheers
John
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