On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 13:13 -0500, Rob Wright wrote: > I thought I had a pretty good grip on how yum works, but it seems I'm wrong. > I'm trying to do an update, and I'd like to exclude some packages that are > giving me dependency problems. Specifically I'm trying to update from FC3 to > FC4. I've tried doing this: > > yum --exclude=koffice --exclude=pythonabi --exclude=apt --exclude=kdenetwork > --exclude=libmal --exclude=kdegraphics --exclude=kdeaddons --exclude=kdepim > --exclude=gcc-g77 --exclude=kdeedu --exclude=libgcrypt-devel > --exclude=python-reportlab update > > on the command line but I still get errors about missing dependencies. So I > added this to my yum.conf: > > exclude=koffice pythonabi apt kdenetwork libmal kdegraphics kdeaddons kdepim > gcc-g77 kdeedu libgcrypt-devel python-reportlab > > which yields the same results when I run "yum update" > > Reading the man page for yum, and other online documentation it looks like I'm > doing both of those correctly, but I'm obviously missing something. I've got > yum 2.2.1 and FC3. Any advice would be appreciated. Have you seen: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq What dependency issues are you seeing? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
