Jeff Spaleta writes: > On 6/20/05, Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This morning I noticed my yum updates weren't taking because of two > > obscure (to me) packages' missing dependencies. I tried to issue > > --exclude=wl-xemacs --exclude=gda-postgres but this had no effect. I had > > to rpm -e these two packages to get my 700Mb update rolling on my x86_64 > > box. > > > yum is excluding for me as expected. Perhaps you were misinterpreting > the yum output. > Perhaps in the case of gda-postgres the problem was with a pending update > of the postgresql-libs package providing libpq.so.4 and no longer > providing the libpq.so.3 library that your installed version of > gda-postgres required. In a case like that.. excluding gda-postgres > doesn't do anything useful because its not gda-postgres that is trying > to be updated. > This looks like what I saw. It is indeed possible I transposed in my mind. I've been known to do that. > -jef > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
