Re: yum exclude?

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On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 14:46, 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
>             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?
> 

Unless I am seeing things the line I marked above is --exclude=......


> 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


One other thing of note.  Unless you already have the package installed
'yum update' will do nothing with it except download headers for
verification. 



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