RHEL5: Forbid installation of i386 packages on 64-bit systems?
Add multilib_policy=best to your /etc/yum.conf Yum will now try to install the “best” package.arch for your system and it will only install that one (as long as it is available). Assuming you’re on a 64-Bit system, yum will first try to install package.x86_64, if that doesn’t exist it will fall back to i386 and noarch. … Read more