yum groupinstall single arch?

Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Sun Oct 21 19:03:10 UTC 2007


On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:06:32AM -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
> On 10/21/07, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> wrote:
> > I'm doing my semi-annual penance by doing yum upgrade to rawhide.
> > I'll write up my notes soonish (it's not that bad, but not exactly for
> > beginners), but had a question.
> >
> > I'm on x86_64, and I've removed all the i386 packages. :-)  I want to
> > update several yum groups, with:
> >
> > yum groupinstall Base
> > yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop Environment'
> >
> > unfortunately, this pulls in piles of i386 packages for no obvious
> > reason, when I really only need a few new x86_64 packages.
> >
> > How can I get yum groupinstall to not pull in the i386 packages?
> 
> Does yum install yum-basearchonly work?

Thanks for the pointer, but no, it doesn't help.

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Matt Domsch
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