On 6/20/05, Janina Sajka <janina(a)rednote.net> wrote:
This morning I noticed my yum updates weren't taking because of
two
obscure (to me) packages' missing dependencies. I tried to issue
--exclude=wl-xemacs --exclude=gda-postgres but this had no effect. I had
to rpm -e these two packages to get my 700Mb update rolling on my x86_64
box.
yum is excluding for me as expected. Perhaps you were misinterpreting
the yum output.
Perhaps in the case of gda-postgres the problem was with a pending update
of the postgresql-libs package providing libpq.so.4 and no longer
providing the libpq.so.3 library that your installed version of
gda-postgres required. In a case like that.. excluding gda-postgres
doesn't do anything useful because its not gda-postgres that is trying
to be updated.
-jef