Re: feedback: fc5 and fc6t3 x86_64

[Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl>]

Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> On 10/19/06, Denis Leroy <> wrote:
>> > They should do "yum install foo.x86_64" instead of just "yum install
>> > foo", also when they update they shouldn't do piecemeal updates.
> 
> how about the dependencies yum is fetching ?
> 

Usually those are library deps and a 64 bit app will drag in 64 bit libs
etc. The only problem ATM is deps for -devel packages where installing a
-devel packages who's base package isn't installed yet will drag in the
base package for both archs.

>> just add this to /etc/yum.conf
>> exclude=*.i386 *.i686 *.i586 *.athlon
> 
> Should this be included by default for x86_64 ?
> user joe won't figure it out like this.
> 

Well that would have meant untill recently no openoffice for example,
just excluding anything i386 is not a good idea.

Regards,

Hans