On Nov 14, 2007 1:55 AM, Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:45:45 +0900 > John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Then I try > > yum upgrade > > and it wants to install it all again. Why is it so? > > Because you didn't tell it not to. > > Put the following line into /etc/yum.conf: > > exclude=*.i386 *.i586 *.i686 I recently did a yum list "*yum*" and found plenty of interesting yum plugins (? I think that's what they are called). One of which had a name like yum-basearchonly (I don't remember exactly). I would assume its job is to only install packages for x86_64 on such a system. You might give it a look. Jonathan
