On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 01:20:39PM -0400, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: >Forum: CFEngine Help >Subject: Re: Install "ntp" == "Try to install ntp.*!" >Author: jblaine >Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23598,23609#msg-23609 > >neilhwatson Wrote: >------------------------------------------------------- >> Red Hat can have both 32 and 64 bit architecture >> packages installed. Cfengine cannot know which >> one to install without being explicitly told to do >> so. > >Meh. > >If I don't have to tell the raw yum command (never yet), I should not >need to tell CFEngine's call-out to yum. Special-case the special case, >not the norm.
But with yum, that's *not* the norm on x86_64 systems. If I run "yum install tpm-tools", it will install *BOTH* the 32 and 64 bit packages, which I don't want at all (I try to run as clean a 64-bit environment as possible). Thus, I must instead run "yum install tpm-tools.x86_64" to get only the 64bit package. A reasonable solution, perhaps, would be to specify a list of acceptable architectures somewhere and automatically use those, while exluding those not listed. Maybe "package_accepted_arch" or something similar. -- Jesse Becker NHGRI Linux support (Digicon Contractor) _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
