yum groupinstall single arch?

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> 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.
> 

Adding a exclude=*.i?86 to the yum configuration should help.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
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