On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:23:22PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > to be fair - you can do that now: > > #yum shell > > update > > transaction solve > > <error happens and it tells you what the problem is> > > > transaction reset > > config exclude packagename > > update > > transaction solve > > run > etc etc etc. > the yum shell code was written explicitly for this purpose. Or you can just do: $ yum -y upgrade [*] $ <error happens and it tells you what the problem is> $ yum -y upgrade --exclude="packagename" etc etc etc Which is usually what I do because I'm too lazy to type stuff like "transaction solve" and "transaction reset" and "run". * upgrade is better than update! long live upgrade! -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list