On Dec 16, 2010, at 03:58, Devdas Bhagat wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 08:31:58AM -1000, Paul Graydon wrote:
> <snip>
>> 
>> As far as I've seen on CentOS, using yum to install a library on a 64bit 
>> system means it will install both 32bit and 64bit libraries, for 
>> whatever reason.
>> 
> yum -y install app.x86_64 will only pull in the 64 bit app.

On all my machines, I have this in yum.conf:

exclude=*.i386 *.i586 *.i686

Solves the problem nicely. You can also remove all those 32-bit packages with 
no adverse consequences. (Well, probably. Test it ahead of time, as always.)

d.

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