Up2date not being maintained any longer?

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Fri Apr 8 01:11:07 UTC 2005


seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 20:31 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
> 
>>I tried the shell and it did not show any conflicting programs. It 
>>installed all of the packages that were held up because of a multimedia 
>>program using an older flac library conflicted with the newer version.
>>
>>The programs still works but I do not have any flac formatted files to 
>>see if they error. The DVDs still work.
>>
>>Stumbling around in the shell, I got by with this transaction.
>>
>>Thanks Seth. This should be a useful feature when it is further 
>>developed. The exclude package-that-causes-error below was added to a 
>>single > prompt that was returned. I figure that you would exclude k3b 
>>instead of the literal in your posting. Of coarse, I had to try the 
>>literal at the > prompt.
>>
> 
> 
> My fault.
> the command is:
> 
> config exclude package-to-be-excluded
> 
> sorry about that.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 

No noticable damage to the system. I'll try out k3b and the other 
programs that were held back to see if they work as the media player 
does still. Thanks for lesson 1 in the usage of yum shell.

Jim




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