How to restrict package installation to x86_64

[Jason Edgecombe]

I wonder if using the following would work:

%packages
glibc.x86_64
-glibc.i386

does everything require glibc as a dependency? If not could some other 
key package by excluded?
What about removing all of the i386 rpms from your install source?

Jason

Klaus Steden wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> I don't know if there's a way to globally restrict packages the way you're
> looking for, but if it suits your purposes, you can write something like
> this in the '%packages' section of your ks.cfg:
>
> %packages
> @ Admin
> myfoopackage.x86_64
> -myfoopackage.i386
>
> The '-' prefix tells Kickstart not to install it.
>
> hth,
> Klaus
>
> On 2/19/08 9:51 PM, "John Morris" <jman at ablesky.com>did etch on stone
> tablets:
>
>   
>> Not sure if this is a kickstart, anaconda or yum question, so please
>> slap and redirect me if this is the wrong forum.
>>
>> Our server environment is all x86_64 architecture CentOS 5.1, and thus
>> far, new kickstarts have had only a few i386 arch RPMs installed.
>> However, now that the nss_ldap package is included in the ks.cfg file,
>> it is installed in both x86_64 and i386 architectures.  The i386 version
>> brings a bevy of other supporting packages with it.  I wouldn't care
>> that much, except that we have a repo of customized packages, all
>> x86_64, and don't build for the i386 architecture; however, one of the
>> supporting packages that we've upgraded in our custom repo, openldap,
>> breaks the install because the original CentOS openldap package of an
>> earlier version has file conflicts with our newer version.
>>
>> In kickstart, is there a simple way to restrict package installs to
>> x86_64 architecture only?  Or is there a different, 'correct' way to
>> go?  The other solutions I've considered, such as rebuilding our repo
>> for i386 or removing all i386 packages from the vendor repos, seem
>> hackish and inconvenient.
>>
>> Thanks-
>>
>>     John
>>
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