[Leaplist] someone explain why YUM does not do as it is told?

[George Streeper]

How about your yum.conf file will it work if you exclude it there:
man yum.conf


On 3/6/07, ray <ssma at sunstatemartialarts.com> wrote:
> on my laptop, seeing as i can not use my wifi card i plugged into eth0,
> i figured i would run yum update as i have not in a very long time.
>
> well it keeps craping out on Processing Dependency:
> libjaspter-1.701.so.1 is neede by package ImageMagick
>
> ok no big deal, ill just yum remove ImageMagick, nope can't do that as
> it will remove kaffeine and xine.lib  nope not going to do that.
>
> so yum --exclude=ImageMagick update
>
> well --exclude DOES NOT WORK.  i have tried yum update --exclude, and
> yum --exclude it does not matter were i put the --exclude, it continues
> to try to find the dependency for ImageMagic even though it is supposed
> to NOT BE UPGRADING that package, it has been told to exclude, and as
> far as i can tell from reading the man page that is the same thing as
> being told to ignore that package.  yet why does it continue to try to
> upgrade that package?
>
> very frustrated and a bit tired.  yet again why i so much prefer apt
> over yum any day of the week.  no dont try to get me to install and
> reconfigure apt on a Cent box, not worth the hassle.  i just wan yum to
> do what it is told.
>
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