I have read the yum and yum.conf man pages but do not come away with an answer for this question. Assume a case where an exclude line exists for a given package series, like 'mysql'; I have previously disabled cron based updates. When running a manual 'yum update', will yum only propose a transaction set which does not require an updated 'mysql', AND will not break (a la' --nodeps') 'mysql' requires? -- Russ Herrold