Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Bob Marcan wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 05:45:12 -0500 (EST)
> "Robert P. J. Day"  wrote:
> > ideally, i'd like to restrict package arches for these queries to
> > x86_64 or noarch, and "man dnf" suggests the "--arch" option, but that
> > doesn't have the effect i'm after:
> >
> > $ dnf search ftp --arch x86_64
>
> dnf search ftp --forcearch x86_64

nope, already tried that:

ftp.x86_64 : The standard UNIX FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client
lftp-scripts.noarch : Scripts for lftp
vsftpd.x86_64 : Very Secure Ftp Daemon
ftplib.i686 : Library of FTP routines    <----------
... snip ..

rday