On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 06:33:10PM -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:24:02 +0100 > Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 10/24/05, Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I have just updated OpenOffice with the official version 2.0 rpms. > > > > Subsequently, when I run the command "yum update", it tries to > > > > install the version 1.9.125. How can I avoid that behavior of yum? > > > > > > Add openoffice* to your exclude in /etc/yum.conf > > > > Thanks, Patrick, but I do not find any "exclude" in /etc/yum.conf: > > > > # more /etc/yum.conf > > [main] > > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > > debuglevel=2 > > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > > pkgpolicy=newest > > distroverpkg=redhat-release > > tolerant=1 > > exactarch=1 > > retries=20 > > obsoletes=1 > > gpgcheck=1 > > > > # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo > > # in /etc/yum.repos.d > > # > > > > Paul > > > > Hello, Paul > You can just add it yourself. Somewhere in the [main] section put the > following line: > exclude=openoffice* > > For example, your [main] section will now look like this: > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > distroverpkg=redhat-release > tolerant=1 > exactarch=1 > retries=20 > obsoletes=1 > gpgcheck=1 > exclude=openoffice* > > instead of what you pasted in your last email. This should do what you > want. > Or more simply run : yum --exclude="openoffice*" update -- ======================================================================= General notions are generally wrong. -- Lady M.W. Montagu ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
