Yum Not Excluding

[Janina Sajka]

Jeff Spaleta writes:
> On 6/20/05, Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote:
> > This morning I noticed my yum updates weren't taking because of two
> > obscure (to me) packages' missing dependencies. I tried to issue
> > --exclude=wl-xemacs --exclude=gda-postgres but this had no effect. I had
> > to rpm -e these two packages to get my 700Mb update rolling on my x86_64
> > box.
> 
> 
> yum is excluding for me as expected.  Perhaps you were misinterpreting
> the yum output.
> Perhaps in the case of gda-postgres  the problem was with a pending update
> of the postgresql-libs package providing libpq.so.4 and no longer
> providing the libpq.so.3 library that your installed version of
> gda-postgres required. In a case like that.. excluding gda-postgres
> doesn't do anything useful because its not gda-postgres that is trying
> to be updated.
> 
This looks like what I saw. It is indeed possible I transposed in my
mind. I've been known to do that.


> -jef
> 
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