[Yum] yum-2.4.0-14 ignores per-repo exclude

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 19:13 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> I'm trying to get a working tomcat5 on my FC2 system. I found this posting 
> on the JPackage list on how to install JPackage packages on FC2:
> 
> <https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/2004-October/006052.html>
> 
> Instead of putting the suggested exclusions in up2date, I figured yum had 
> per-repo exclusion, so I added them to the FC2 base repo descriptor file in 
> /etc/yum.repos.d. (I've been using yum-2.1 successfully, mainly for the 
> better metadata.)
> 
> So I removed all the matching FC2 packages and then attempted "yum install 
> tomcat5". It looks to be attempting to install ant from the base repo, even 
> though there's one in JPackage and ant is in the base exclude list. What 
> could I be doing wrong?
> 
> (Ultimately the install can't continue because it wants xerces-j to support 
> the ant from FC2 base, instead of xerces-j2 for the ant in JPackage.)
> 
> When I ran into this I figured it was a bug in yum-2.1 so I updated to the 
> latest version in Rawhide. Same output.
> 
> Here's my descriptor for base:
> 
> [base]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> baseurl=file:/opt/Fedora/FC$releasever/RPMS
> #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> # exclude Java packages, we get those from JPackage
> exclude=ant
> exclude=ant-core
> exclude=bcel
> exclude=commons-*
> exclude=jaf
> exclude=jakarta-regexp
> exclude=javamail
> exclude=junit*
> exclude=mod_jk*
> exclude=mysql-jdbc
> exclude=mx4j
> exclude=servletapi
> exclude=tomcat
> exclude=xalan-j
> exclude=xerces-j
> 

you cannot list excludes like this.

only one exclude entry - space or comma separated for the entries.

if you _really_ want multiple lines then do:

exclude=foo
 bar
 baz
 quux

notice the space in front of them.

that's what's causing the problem

-sv