-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Boris Glawe <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> You can exclude the kernel upgrade, in order to at least update the >> rest of the packages. >> >> yum -y --exclude="kernel*" update > > This strikes me as a bug in yum. I don't understand why it just > doesn't upgrade the rest of the rpm's that have no dependency > problems. Perhaps someone should put in a bugzilla on this. > > I've got one remote system that stopped yum updating months ago over > some insignificant program having a dependency problem on some other > insignificant library. Ideally I'd like to see the security fixes > continue to be applied even if some silly gui and a set of libs it > depends on can't be upgraded. > > -wolfgang There is a yum plugin for that yum-skip-broken. Try it. It works well. - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFGce0crItTyWRhT1YRAqMBAKCaEsMkOdtB/00chksT2ozzYB2y0QCfV20Q bqjKVZs9+oRImb2kDGXRKOk= =OJlX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----