> > > 1: remove it after the fact with yum or rpm (not an option with
network
> > > install of over 400 systems).
> >
> > I remove the unnecessary 32bit packages in kickstart %post with
something
> > like this:
> > /bin/rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm\n' \
> > | sort | grep i386.rpm > /root/i386.pkgs-tmp
> > /bin/rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm\n' \
> > | sort | grep i686.rpm | grep openssl >> /root/i386.pkgs-tmp
> > egrep -v 'audit-libs-1|restof-packages-i-need' /root/i386.pkgs-tmp
> > /root/i386.pkgs
> > rpm -e all packages in /root/i386.pkgs
>
> Another quick and working option :
>
> yum -y remove glibc.i686
>
> Obviously, you then get the usual missing documentations, translations
> etc. due to all of the multilib fun in rpm, so it would be best for the
> 32bit packages not to be there in the first place, but...
thanks for the answers so far guys, but I still don't think that
downloading the extra packages just to uninstall them is a good solution,
so I just got off the phone with my TAM. He's going to do some checking.
Maybe if I get a case or bugzilla number anyone else that is interested can
chime in to show collective interest to RH.
-greg
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