On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 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]
from man yum
-----------------
--exclude
Takes a package name or wildcard for a package. You can list
this option more than once on the command line to exclude more
than one package name or wildcard
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Satish
