On 26/11/2007, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "yum update" won't work for me on one computer > because it complains that up2date (an ancient package) > cannot be updated. > > For some reason "yum --exclude=up2date* update" > does not seem to make any difference: You cannot exclude old [already installed] packages when there is no update for them. You can only exclude new packages found in the repository. > [root@alfred tim]# yum --exclude=up2date* update > ... > Running rpm_check_debug > ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: > Package up2date needs python(abi) = 2.4, this is not available. > Complete! > ---------------------------- > > There has been no mention of up2date in the transaction > except for this one. > So I don't understand why this package was mentioned at all. Because there is an upgrade to Python 2.5 taking away "python(abi) = 2.4" replacing it with "python(abi) = 2.5". > I cannot remove it with "rpm -e": > > ---------------------------- > [root@alfred tim]# rpm -e -vv --nodeps up2date Add option --noscripts
