Re: yum groupinstall single arch?

[Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip kanarip com>]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:06:32AM -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
> > On 10/21/07, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch 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
-kanarip