On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:47 -0400, Chuck R. Anderson wrote: > 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 Need to know what those packages are that are being updated. -sv