On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 22:42 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:23:22PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> to be fair - you can do that now:
>
> #yum shell
> > update
> > transaction solve
>
> <error happens and it tells you what the problem is>
>
> > transaction reset
> > config exclude packagename
> > update
> > transaction solve
> > run
> etc etc etc.
> the yum shell code was written explicitly for this purpose.
Or you can just do:
$ yum -y upgrade [*]
$ <error happens and it tells you what the problem is>
$ yum -y upgrade --exclude="packagename"
etc etc etc
Which is usually what I do because I'm too lazy to type stuff like
"transaction solve" and "transaction reset" and "run".
* upgrade is better than update! long live upgrade!
umm - all that upgrade does is make sure that obsoletes is enabled before running the
update.
obsoletes are enabled by default these days so update == upgrade nine times out of 10.
-sv