i386 junk on x86_64 default install

[Michel Salim]

On 10/26/06, Rob Andrews <rob at choralone.org> wrote:
> On 26-Oct-2006 12:02.37 (BST), Gilboa Davara wrote:
>  > Maybe this will be a good time to resurface this thread:
>  > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-August/msg00709.html
>
> Doesn't strike me as a bad idea, but you should be able to manage this by
> performing an install from a customised repository (minus all of the i386
> arch packages), running genhdlist and installing, then ensuring any
> installations are done along the lines of:
>
>     yum install <foo>.x86_64
>
> A 'yum update' already does The Right Thing and only updates installed
> packages, so doesn't pull in any 32-bit packages that aren't already
> installed.
>
> Maybe a "64-bit pure" flag for Anaconda would help make this easier?
>
Perhaps call it "native binaries only" just in case there are more
multilib architectures in Fedora's future.


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Michel Salim
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