F19 upgrade pulls in a lot of i686 packages

Ben Boeckel mathstuf at gmail.com
Sun Jul 7 20:40:08 UTC 2013


On Sun, 30 Jun, 2013 at 15:03:58 GMT, Heiko Adams wrote:
> But why doesn't prevent yum packages with arch !=3D ($Basearch, noarch)
> from being pulled in by default? It doesn't make sense to install i.e.
> x86_64 packages on an i686 System. So those packages should be ignored
> comletely by yum as long as the user doesn't instruct yum explicit to
> install them.

That would break "yum install wine" on x86_64 since deps aren't
satisfiable. Personally, I just use --exclude=*.i?86 when this happens,
but I'm also a command line junkie; not sure how the GUI would handle
this case.

--Ben



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