I have been installing specific i386 packages (such as Firefox) on machines with x86_64 Fedora Core 4 using the following approach. I created fedora.i386.repo, fedora-updates.i386.repo, and fedora-extras.i386.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d with contents of... [base-i386] name=Fedora Core $releasever - i386 - Released Updates baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/ #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 [updates-released-i386] name=Fedora Core $releasever - i386 - Released Updates baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/i386/ #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 [extras-i386] name=Fedora Extras $releasever - i386 baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/i386/ #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-extras-$releasever enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras gpgcheck=1 These work fine for installing specific i386 packages with yum using the --enablerepo flag set to the appropriate repository. However I am quite unclear on how I can cleanly use 'yum update' to update only those i386 packages installed to the latest versions without accidentally installing additional i386 packages for other packages that are already installed as the x86_64 version only. Thanks in advance for any clarifications on this issue. Jack
