> For yum, it would be nice if you could yum -y update and get the > updates. The problem is that it had over 100 rpms that it could > successfully update if it would do its best. Up2date does the same > thing, so not really an up2date vs. yum issue. With a customized and > manually edited script, I could get yum to do what I wanted by using the > information related to what up2date was trying to install. I keep suggesting you use the yum shell and you don't seem to have tried it. Try this, please: yum shell > update > transaction solve <some error occurs here> > exclude package-that-causes-error > update > transaction solve <no errors> > run > quit ta da! -sv