[Yum] excluded files trouble

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Fri, 2005-28-10 at 21:53 -0700, kingshizzle wrote:
> Hello Yum Folks,
> Yum noob here on Fedora Core 4.  Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Summary -- Yum bailing due to missing dependencies required by excluded
> packages!
> 
> I did the following:
> 
> 1) Did >sudo yum update
> 2) Saw lots of openoffice language packs I didn't want, answered 'N' to
> the OK? question.
> 3) Added exlude=openoffice.org-langpack* to my yum.conf
> 4) Did >sudo yum update
> 
> Tried exclude on the command line too.  Sample output is below.
> 
> $ sudo yum update --exclude=openoffice.org-langpack*

All the langpacks already installed won't let you upgrade the core,
since they require the older version, and you're excluding the updates
for newer langpacks. To fix:

yum erase openoffice.org-langpack*

Regards,
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