On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:39:18 -0500
Troy Dawson wrote:


> Hi Arnau,
Hi Troy,

> The problem is with groups, and as far as I know, has not been
> resolved. There is no way to add arches to packages in a group.  
> So when you do group installs, it is going to follow the
> multilib_policy. 
Thnks, clear now. 
* Opening comps file answered my question. As you say, no arch
  specified so multilib_policy does its job. :-(

> If the policy is set to "best", and there is a
> package for both i386 and x86_64, then it is going to pick the x86_64
> one and ignore the other. If the policy is set to "all" then it is
> going to install both the i386 and x86_64.
Ok, so I'll use best for basic install/update and all for group
install. 

> That might be fixed in SL6, or maybe with a yum plugin, but I haven't 
> seen it yet.
> Troy

Thanks for your reply Troy,

Cheers,
Arnau