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

[ray]

Kyle Gonzales wrote:
> 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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>>  --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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nope, way to old for that.  its an old P4m 1.8Ghz laptop.

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Raymond L. Brunkow
5th Degree Black Belt
Chief Instructor & Owner
Sun State Martial Arts
407-786-2525
http://www.SunStateMartialArts.us