[Yum-devel] yum exclude seems broken in 3.2.10 under certain conditions

Hans-Peter Jansen hpj at urpla.net
Thu Feb 7 13:23:11 UTC 2008


Hi,

after upgrading from 3.2.5 to 3.2.10, I found the exclude handling broken 
under certain conditions, in my case some kernel packages on openSUSE 10.2.
I do update my kernel manually, because I need to build/install the nvidia 
gfx kernel module, too.

Thus, I do have this exclude in update.repo:
exclude=kernel-*

Running yum update results in:

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
=============================================================================
Installing:
 kernel-bigsmp           i586       2.6.18.8-0.8     update             19 M
 kernel-source           i586       2.6.18.8-0.8     update             46 M
 kernel-syms             i586       2.6.18.8-0.8     update            1.8 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      3 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Probably, this is related to the special kernel package handling.

Here's what I have in yum.conf:

exactarchlist=kernel-bigsmp, kernel-debug, kernel-default, kernel-pae, 
kernel-syms, kernel-rt, kernel-xen, kernel-xenpae, kernel-source, glibc
installonlypkgs=kernel-bigsmp, kernel-debug, kernel-default, kernel-pae, 
kernel-syms, kernel-rt, kernel-xen, kernel-xenpae, kernel-source
kernelpkgnames=kernel-bigsmp, kernel-debug, kernel-default, kernel-pae, 
kernel-syms, kernel-rt, kernel-xen, kernel-xenpae, kernel-source, 
nvidia-kmp-bigsmp, nvidia-kmp-default

Any idea, what's going wrong here?

Pete

Attached is the result of yum -v update.
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