On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 05:14, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 03:23, Jeff Vian wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 21:36, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > 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. > > Are you sure about that? I've had exclude lines for individual > repositories before that have worked perfectly well. The yum.conf > manpage explicitly says that exclude= can be used in both the main and > individual repository sections. > Paul, We both are right in certain conditions. I left off the qualification part of the statement above. The exclude line needs to be in the [main] section if it is to apply to all servers. Excludes in the [server] section only apply to servers in that section. This is out of the man page for yum.conf on my FC2 system with yum-2.0.8-37.rhfc2.at > Paul. > -- > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
