On 12/23/05, M. Lewis <cajun@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks very much for the detailed step-by-step Ralf. Very much appreciated. > > As soon as I finish updating the other 158 packages that Yum decided not > to install due to this silliness, I will try this. Personally I find it > quite irritating to have to install 158 packages, one-by-one because of > one or two dependencies that could not be resolved. > > Thanks again ! > Mike Hi Mike, I don't know why no one has told you this before, but yum has an option --exclude that can be used in this situation. Check out "man yum" for more info. I'm not sure which package exactly you are stuck on, but it seems like it is kernel-module-nvidia. Try this and see what happens: yum --exclude=kernel-module-nvidia\* update If it complains that it cannot update other packages, just add them as other excludes until it works. Should be easier than updating package-by-package. I agree with others in this thread, I do not see why yum cannot figure out which packages it *can* update without conflicts (that is, with code written to do that). Is it really that hard a problem to solve? I'm sure it could get complex, but it seems like it should be able to figure out at least simple cases like this. If a package cannot be updated because of dependencies, try again with that package set not to update. Repeat until it succeeds. Would this really be that hard? Maybe I need to learn Python... Merry Christmas to all! Jonathan
