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

[Kyle Gonzales]

Is this a 64-bit system?  If so, the issue might be that you have both
32-bit and 64-bit libraries, and the dependency checking is getting a
bit confused.  I had seen that happen before.

On 3/7/07, ray <ssma at sunstatemartialarts.com> wrote:
>
>  George Streeper wrote:
> 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.
>
>  --
>  Raymond L. Brunkow
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>  Sun State Martial Arts
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>  --exclude=package Exclude a specific package by name or glob from updates
> on all repositories. Configuration Option: exclude that is right out of man
> yum so according to that it should no longer look at ImageMagick as a
> package to update/grade.
>
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> Raymond L. Brunkow
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> Sun State Martial Arts
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