Re: Yum on 64 bit RedHat...

seth vidal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <1173200632.30992.69.camel@cutter>
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 12:00 -0500, Scott Bambrough wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using yum 3.0 on RHEL4 64 bit.  I have the 64 bit version of the 
> package qt (x86_64) installed, and attempted to install qt-devel using 
> the command:
> 
> $ yum install qt-devel
> 
> This attempted to install the x86_64 package and the i386 packages for 
> qt and qt-devel.
> 
> I was able to get around this by specifying:
> 
> $ yum install qt-devel-{VERSION}.x86-64
> 
> I was wondering if there was an simpler way to restrict yum to only a 
> specific architecture when more than one is available?

you can use excludes like: exclude: *.i?86

though, I wouldn't recommend it.


-sv
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