On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 12:38, R P Herrold wrote: > 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? No, yum will attempt to update anything it sees an update for. if mysql* is in your excludes then it won't see the updates for mysql - therefore it won't try them. if your update requires one of the mysql* files then yum will complain and tell you it can't finish the update b/c mysql* is needed and it is excluded. Does that help? -sv
