F9beta update takes forever

[John Summerfield]

Jesse Keating wrote:
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> On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:08, John Summerfield 
> <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
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>> 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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