[Yum] exactarch and update or install

[Jürgen Möllenhoff]

Hi,

does the "exactarch" in the yum.conf works only for the "yum 
update/upgrade" command? Or effects the "exactarch" option "yum install" 
too? I tried it and to me it looks that only "yum update/upgrade" are 
affected by this option (which makes sense according to the man page :)):

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exactarch
              1  or  0 - set to 1 to make yum update only update the 
architec-
              tures of packages that you have installed. IE: with this 
enabled
              yum  will not install an i686 package to update an i386 
package.
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I'm asking this question because I had the problem that yum refuses to 
install a RPM on my system. The RPM has as architecture i686 but my base 
architecture is i386 (according to yum, the CPU is a P4) and so yum 
couldn't find the package with "yum install". Is there an option of the 
exactarch parameter which affects "yum install" as well?

Bye,

   Jürgen