Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures
This is pretty much the most useful thread I've ever been a part of on
the CentOS mailing list!!
Thanks a ton to everyone who helped!!
Also the senior SA I work with gave me this little gem today:
yum -y remove $(yum list installed | awk '{print $1}'| egrep -v
(x86_64|noarch))
But of course make SURE you uname -a and make sure the arch is right
before you do because of the -y flag or of course just remove it if
that makes you more comfortable!
Best!
Tim
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote:
I would also do this:
yum reinstall \*
The reason being that sometimes the /usr/share/ items (shared between
BOTH packages) get removed when removing multi arch RPMS.
The above lines added to the FAQ:
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General?action=show#head-357346ff0bf7c14b0849c3bcce39677aaca528e9
Take a look at
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Migration_Planning_Guide/ch09s05.html.
The better solution, at least for CentOS 5, is to add this to /etc/yum.conf
# Disable auto-installation of i386 and x86_64
#multilib_policy=all
multilib_policy=best
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Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote:
This is pretty much the most useful thread I've ever been a part of on
the CentOS mailing list!!
Thanks a ton to everyone who helped!!
Also the senior SA I work with gave me this little gem today:
yum -y remove $(yum list installed | awk '{print $1}'| egrep -v
(x86_64|noarch))
But of course make SURE you uname -a and make sure the arch is right
before you do because of the -y flag or of course just remove it if
that makes you more comfortable!
Best!
Tim
Tim, unless you've misinterpreted what he said, that senior SA
should have his scripting privileges revoked and his title replaced
with script-kiddie wanna-be. That command is hideously dangerous.
The first flaw is that it will flush the GPG keys, which have
architecture '(none)'
The second flaw is that noarch and x86_64 packages may have
*dependencies* on components that are i386 or i686 or some other
architecture, and rippiong out the i386 packages may rip out the
x86_64 packages as well.
Third is that using yum to generate the target list will wind up
trying to remove packages you don't even have installed, or packages
that have i386 versions in one repository but not in the other
repository, and cause *real* chaos.
If you need to do something like this, take a look at an actual list
generated with
LANG=C rpm -qa --qf '%{name}.%{arch}\n | egrep -v
(x86_64|noarch))
Then use yum to go down the list and *manually* accept them, not
automatically, for your own safety.
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Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures
On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: On my centos boxes whenever I try to install packages I get a mix of packages from the repos that are both i386 and x86_64 in archictecture: Yum doesn't implicitly know if you want the 64 or 32-bit versions so it selects both. If you only want 64-bit put .x86_64 at the end of the package name. The 32-bit versions are there for 32-bit binary application support. -Ross ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures
Hi guys, I took your advice and performed a yum remove *386 on this box. Also yes I can easily append x86_64 or i386 (depending on the machine) each time I go to install an app. But my question remains is there any way to instruct yum to automatically select the right package architecture through a setting in one of the config files rather than having to specify which architecture you are working with each time. This is just a curiosity and not of course anything at all critical or important. thanks for your help. Tim On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: On my centos boxes whenever I try to install packages I get a mix of packages from the repos that are both i386 and x86_64 in archictecture: Yum doesn't implicitly know if you want the 64 or 32-bit versions so it selects both. If you only want 64-bit put .x86_64 at the end of the package name. The 32-bit versions are there for 32-bit binary application support. -Ross ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures
But my question remains is there any way to instruct yum to automatically select the right package architecture through a setting in one of the config files rather than having to specify which architecture you are working with each time. You can place an exclude statement in /etc/yum.conf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures
ok that's great! thank you! On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:29 AM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com wrote: But my question remains is there any way to instruct yum to automatically select the right package architecture through a setting in one of the config files rather than having to specify which architecture you are working with each time. You can place an exclude statement in /etc/yum.conf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures
On 03/08/2011 09:51 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: ok that's great! thank you! On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:29 AM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com wrote: But my question remains is there any way to instruct yum to automatically select the right package architecture through a setting in one of the config files rather than having to specify which architecture you are working with each time. You would put this in your /etc/yum.conf file exclude=*.i386 *.i686 I would also do this: yum reinstall \* The reason being that sometimes the /usr/share/ items (shared between BOTH packages) get removed when removing multi arch RPMS. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: I would also do this: yum reinstall \* The reason being that sometimes the /usr/share/ items (shared between BOTH packages) get removed when removing multi arch RPMS. The above lines added to the FAQ: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General?action=show#head-357346ff0bf7c14b0849c3bcce39677aaca528e9 Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: I would also do this: yum reinstall \* The reason being that sometimes the /usr/share/ items (shared between BOTH packages) get removed when removing multi arch RPMS. The above lines added to the FAQ: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General?action=show#head-357346ff0bf7c14b0849c3bcce39677aaca528e9 Take a look at http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Migration_Planning_Guide/ch09s05.html. The better solution, at least for CentOS 5, is to add this to /etc/yum.conf # Disable auto-installation of i386 and x86_64 #multilib_policy=all multilib_policy=best ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures
Hello, On my centos boxes whenever I try to install packages I get a mix of packages from the repos that are both i386 and x86_64 in archictecture: === Package Arch Version RepositorySize === Installing: boost-devel i386 1.33.1-10.el5 base 4.3 M boost-devel x86_64 1.33.1-10.el5 base 4.4 M Installing for dependencies: boost i386 1.33.1-10.el5 base 863 k boost x86_64 1.33.1-10.el5 base 861 k libicu i386 3.6-5.11.4 base 5.2 M libicu x86_64 3.6-5.11.4 base 5.2 M Transaction Summary === Install 6 Package(s) Upgrade 0 Package(s) Without having so specify the arch on each yum command how can I automatically prune my yum repo files so that it will only grab packages that relate to the architecture I'm running? Thanks in advance! -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On my centos boxes whenever I try to install packages I get a mix of packages from the repos that are both i386 and x86_64 in archictecture: Jump to CentOS 6. Wait, that's not out yet. Buy an RHEL 6 license or test with Scientic Linux 6 until CentOS 6 is out. The default behavior of yum has changed, and it's just safier and easier to work with an architecture that does the more selective thing by deffault. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
