[Yum] specifying architectures in the grouplist.xml?

[Peter C. Norton]

Seth,

I think that your recommndation is ideal in that it works and should
make sense to those using it. 

Thanks! 

-Peter

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:36:23AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > My scenarios are as follows:
> > 
> > 1) A unified repository for a group that has software to deploy. The
> > SA is testing switching over, and wants a guarantee that only packages
> > for the abi being tested will be installed.
> 
> yum --exclude='*.i?86' groupinstall foo
> 
> 
> > 2) In production for an application only the x86 version of a library
> > has been tested and qualified, the x86_64 version has bugs, however
> > but is present in a production repo because the repository is unified
> > and so the broken library is there for testing but yum may install it
> > anyway. So only the x86 version should be deployed but the x86_64
> > version can be installed as well even though it's broken.
> 
> yum  groupinstall foo
> 
> 
> > 3) By far the most common case IMO, aaaa control freak SA wants a
> > 64-bit only system.
> 
> yum --exclude='*.x86_64' groupinstall foo
> 
> 
> > I'm not trying to be too light about this. I'm writing while on
> > vacation, though, so I'm feeling oddly relaxed.
> 
> I do understand what you're looking for I'm just trying to figure out
> how to do it b/c I'm pretty sure that  getting support for architectures
> into the comps.xml format is going to meet with some strong
> resistance....
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
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