The same old question came up in an IRC channel yet again today, by a person who will not read, nor Google. Once again, with feeling, here is a quick script to study, as to stripping out excessive content on a Red Hat, CentOS, or Fedora derived 'multi-arch' box
[root@centos-5 bin]# cat ./strip-non-x86_64.sh
#/bin/sh
#
# strip-non-x86_64.sh
#
# strip all non x64_64 content (and also leave behind
# noarch stuff) for more build dependency friendly
# environment
#
# Copyright (c) 2010 R P Herrold
# GPLv3+
# tossed together for education purposes for a blog post
#
# optionally run over or over, after enabling the removal
# or one pass, if you uncomment two places
#
# not designed to be the more efficient one pass solution
# which is possible
#
# NODEPS="--nodeps "
#
# see: man rpm, see '--qf' or: queryformat
# or --querytags
#
for i in `rpm -qa --qf '%{name}.%{arch}\n' | sort | grep -v ^kernel | \
grep -v noarch$ | grep -v "86_64" | grep -v ^gpg-pubkey `; do
echo "${i}"
# rpm -e ${i} ${NODEPS}
done
#
[root@centos-5 bin]# ./strip-non-x86_64.sh
[root@centos-5 bin]# I am so bone tired of people who want to be fed from the same old dirty spoon
For extra credit see: man yum.conf and add the needed multilib_policy = best line to etc/yum.conf
