[Yum] Yum --exclude does not work??

[James Antill]

Vishnu Kumar D R <vishnu.kumar at mahiti.org> writes:

>> ffmpeg-20081216-1.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
>>   --> Missing Dependency: libbfd-2.17.50.0.6-6.el5.so is needed by package
>> ffmpeg-20081216-1.i386 (installed)
>> lame-398-2-1.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
>>   --> Missing Dependency: libbfd-2.17.50.0.6-6.el5.so is needed by package
>> lame-398-2-1.i386 (installed)
>> Error: Missing Dependency: libbfd-2.17.50.0.6-6.el5.so is needed by
>> package lame-398-2-1.i386 (installed)
>> Error: Missing Dependency: libbfd-2.17.50.0.6-6.el5.so is needed by
>> package ffmpeg-20081216-1.i386 (installed)
>>
> The packages ffmpeg and lam-398 were custom compiled with some
> modifications.
> These packages with the modification are in use for a live site hosted on
> the machine.
> I also did a *--exclude=lame* --exclude=ffmpeg* *but it gives the same error

 You can't exclude _installed_ packages, only available ones. It looks
like something wants to update libbfd to a version that isn't
compatible to what the installed versions of lame and ffmpeg want. If
you exclude libbfd it will point out what needs it.
 Also with 3.2.19-18 you can use --skip-broken to do the above
automatically.

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org