Re: yum update blocked for now

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On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 22:42 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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!

umm - all that upgrade does is make sure that obsoletes is enabled before running the update.


obsoletes are enabled by default these days so update == upgrade nine times out of 10.

-sv


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