F9beta update takes forever

[Will Woods]

On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:41 PM, John Summerfield wrote:

> ??
> While running a new update to try to reproduce the problem, I see  
> it's installing lots of unwanted 386 packages. This leads to the  
> question, why did yum-basearchonly get removed?

If memory serves, it's been obsoleted by the multilib_policy feature  
in yum. It defaults to 'best', so 'yum install PKG' already does what  
you want it to - only installs PKG.x86_64, not PKG.i386.

See here: http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/long-wanted-feature-added-to-yum/
also: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-February/msg00168.html

-w