Yum trying to update OpenOffice 2.4 with older 2.3 version on F8

[Leland C. Scott]

I installed OpenOffice version 2.4.1 on a Fedora 8 system. The package
installed OK. The problem is now when I do a "yum update" at the command
line as root yum tries to update the installed OpenOffice packages with the
older 2.3 versions. I did the typical "yum clean all" and the other options
to dump the metadata etc. files. I also did an rpm rebuild database too. Yum
still tries to overwrite the newer version with the older distro specific 
ones.

I also updated an old Fedora Core 3 system too and it doesn't seem to have 
this problem. When I do a "yum update" it doesn't try to install the old 
OpenOffice files. I know this version of the distro is way out of date 
however I thought that it would have performed the same as the F8 system in 
regards to the rpm's.

The only difference I can see is the FC3 system isn't being updated anymore.

One interesting point I noticed is the GUI "Add/Remove Software" utility in 
F8 shows that OpenOffice 2.3 is installed after I installed the 2.4.1 
version. Seems like something doesn't notice the difference in the installed 
rpm files or some list in a file is way out of date.

Anybody know how to fix this permanently without having to stick in any 
"exclude=openoffice*" lines in the repo files or the "yum.conf" file? It 
works but why do I need to do it?


Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO