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[Horst H. von Brand]

David Boles <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:
> on 9/20/2007 2:46 AM, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> > Jim Cornette <fct-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> >> David Boles wrote:
> >>> Not sure, exactly, what you are saying here. Remove is not normally
> >>> necessary. Just exclude the packages that are causing the problems with
> >>> some of the packages in the update.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> >> So what would the right command to get the packages installed without
> >> conflict be? Would it be something like below? Or would simply
> >> determining your need for the conflicting package and removing it be a
> >> better alternative?
> >>
> >> yum -y --skip-broken --exclude=digikam
> > 
> > I'd vote for axing yum-skip-broken. It has *never* worked.

> In a different post I noted that you have to turn on the plugin for it to
> work since it defaults to off.
> 
> yum --skip-broken update     for example

Or "yum update --skip-broken". Both bomb out here when there is some
conflict, updating nothing whatsoever.
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