[Yum] --exclude What am I doing wrong?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Sep 15 22:00:39 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 17:57, Michael Miller wrote:
> I don't understand why I can't get yum to skip this package.  Please copy 
> me directly on any response.  thanx,  MYK
> 

please subscribe to lists you post to, it's really annoying to have to
approve every message.

> [root at myserver root]# yum update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> .Package gnome-utils needs /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0, this is not 
> available.
> [root at myserver root]# yum  --exclude gnome-utils update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> .Package gnome-utils needs /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0, this is not 
> available.
> [root at myserver root]# yum  --exclude=gnome-utils update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> .Package gnome-utils needs /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0, this is not 
> available.

yum is updating gtk2 and your installed gnome-utils package needs the
older version.

you really want to run:

yum --exclude=gtk2 update

-sv





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