[Yum-devel] Excludes in *.repo -- is it just me?

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 09:54 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> I'm using yum-3.0.4-1.fc6 on FC6. I've been having the problem that
> "exclude" lines in *.repo files don't seem to have any effect on what
> gets chosen for an update. If I enable debugging, I can see that the
> package gets excluded, but then later on that update gets proposed
> anyway.
> 
> If I put the "exclude" into yum.conf it works, but that's not what I
> want to do: I just don't want a few specific packages from jpackage to
> overwrite the ones from FC, but I still want to get FC updates for
> those packages.
> 
> I posted a backtrace in this bug:
>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208520#c3
> 
> Is it just me that's having this problem?
> 

I'll respond in the bug.

-sv