> They point at the core FC3 repositories and livna.org. The Dag Wieers > repository is described but disabled. Okie doke let's look at the problem(s) here: Can you send me some more output from the errors you're seeing: yum list installed yum list updates would help, to start with. > And the philosophy doesn't explain why the exclude option is useless. > I tried to use it to tell yum to not install any of the dozen or so packages > dependant on the missing xfce part. It completely ignored that instruction > and treated the xfce dependencies as showstoppers. aborting the *entire* > update. also - when you pass excludes in on the command line - pass them with a -d3 at the beginning of the command line and let's see that output too - it'll help us figure out what's being excluded. > I'd like to fix at least thec exclude bug, but I can't because I can't figure > out how to test the CVS version. > > esr@snark:/etc/yum.repos.d$ cd ~/cvs > esr@snark:~/cvs$ cd yum > /home/esr/cvs/yum > esr@snark:~/cvs/yum$ bin/yum.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "bin/yum.py", line 6, in ? > import yummain > File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 23, in ? > import yum > File "/home/esr/cvs/yum/bin/yum.py", line 7, in ? > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'main' > > Would someone please document a test procedure for this puppy? cd ~/cvs/yum PYTHONPATH=~/cvs/yum:$PYTHONPATH python yummain.py youryumargshere that should work just splendidly. I think yum cvs head should even be working right now. -sv
