On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 21:36, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Yum version is 2.0.7, FC2 upgraded from RH8 machine. > > 1. I thought I had killed the automatic yum invocation, but it > apparently came back on for some reason and ran last night, > which is puzzling. > > 2. yum proceeded to update a bunch of stuffs last night sometime, > stuff that included libxml2, but its apparently a fresh package as > its dated yesterday in the cache. > > 3. yum etc is still working, which after previous experience, > plumb amazes me! > > 4. Whats wrong with this exclude line in my yum.conf inserted > below that would cause it to ignore my exclude of libxml2 stuffs? The exclude line needs to be in the [main] section. > ------------------- > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > distroverpkg=redhat-release > tolerant=1 > exactarch=1 > obsoletes=1 > retries=20 > > [updates-released] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates > baseurl=http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ > exclude=kernel* kde* xorg* cups* gimp-print* pango* gimp* gtk2* libxml2* libxslt* > -------------- > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly > Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message > by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
