feedback: fc5 and fc6t3 x86_64

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Wed Oct 18 22:56:10 UTC 2006


Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I've just received some feedback from 3 users with fc5 and fc6t3 x86_64.
>>
>> All the three of them:
>> yum is downloading both 32 bits and 64 bit versions of the same
>> packages, hence during installation there are conflicts.
>>
>> Is this a known issue ?
>> is there a solution and in fc6 will it be corrected?
>>
>> chitlesh
> 
> They should do "yum install foo.x86_64" instead of just "yum install
> foo", also when they update they shouldn't do piecemeal updates.

just add this to /etc/yum.conf

exclude=*.i386 *.i686 *.i586 *.athlon




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