yum exclude?

[Mike Ramirez]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 12:46, Dave Stevens wrote:
> ok, here is what I get:
> 
> yum --help
>  
>     Usage:  yum [options] <update | upgrade | install | info | remove | list |
>             clean | provides | search | check-update | groupinstall | 
> groupupdat e |
>             grouplist >
>                  
>          Options:
>           -c [config file] - specify the config file to use
>           -e [error level] - set the error logging level
>           -d [debug level] - set the debugging level
>           -y answer yes to all questions
>           -t be tolerant about errors in package commands
>           -R [time in minutes] - set the max amount of time to randomly run 
> in.
>           -C run from cache only - do not update the cache
>           --installroot=[path] - set the install root (default '/')
>           --version - output the version of yum
>          --exclude=some_pkg_name - packagename to exclude - you can use
Read the line above this one.  Probably not the first to point this
out.  Help is good if you know what you are looking for but man yum
gives you full descriptions of each option.
>             this more than once
>           --download-only - only download packages - do not run the 
> transaction
>           -h, --help this screen
> 
> I have dug into it a bit and see a hole in the documentation. The yum help 
> file above does not mention exclude. Version is 2.0.7. Or is my yum out of 
> date?
> 
> man yum is no better, man yum.conf gives options under [main] and [servers]
> 
> Michael do you want me to post the new yum.conf?
> 
> dave
> 
> 
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