On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:39:48PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Michael Weiner wrote: > > > i get EXACTLY the same behavior, so you are not going insane :) > > as a quick fix (for now), i just "yum remove"d postgresql-libs and let > yum deal with the dependencies on libpq.so.3. it's updating as we > speak, and i'll worry about putting the postgresql stuff back in > tomorrow. no big deal. sorry, i didn't mean to start such an > animated discussion. I did something like this: yum -y --exclude='postgresql*' --exclude='libdbi*' --exclude='*php*' --exclude='dovecot' update which passed the transaction check and started running the transaction, but then yum tracebacked: Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 4 Package(s) Update 183 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 677 M Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 15, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 149, in main base.doTransaction() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 651, in doTransaction self.runTransaction(cb=cb) File "__init__.py", line 333, in runTransaction NameError: global name 'yum' is not defined