Bug 435619 - When issuing "yum install foo" on a 64-bit installation, both the x86 and 64 bit packages are being installed
Summary: When issuing "yum install foo" on a 64-bit installation, both the x86 and 64 ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Seth Vidal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2008-03-02 17:20 UTC by Martin Jürgens
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-03-03 02:49:02 UTC
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Description Martin Jürgens 2008-03-02 17:20:21 UTC 
Description of problem:
When issuing "yum install foo" on a 64-bit installation, both the x86 and 64 bit
packages are being installed which may confuse users.

I know that there is a way to prevent yum from doing it, but the way to go is
probably to only install the 64-bit packages on a 64-bit installation by default.
Comment 1 James Antill 2008-03-03 02:49:02 UTC 
 For Fed-8 there is a yum-basearchonly plugin, which does what you want. For
Fedora 9 we've integrated the feature into core yum, and _might_ be changing the
default policy to only install the x86_64 packages (currently yum follows the
Fedora policy, which is to install both).
Comment 2 Martin Jürgens 2008-03-03 07:11:42 UTC 
Good. Then I just want you to encourage to change the default policy ;)
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