>Only after I guessed that ORBit2 packages may have something to
>do with the problem, and exluding those in the first phase, allowed
>me to proceed.
>
>
Same here. Did an yum --exclude=ORBit2 --exclude=ORBit2-devel update
Worked great!
So in both your cases yum would only update one package then exit unless
you added the above exclude?
-sv