Yum Not Excluding

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 10:12 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> This morning I noticed my yum updates weren't taking because of two
> obscure (to me) packages' missing dependencies. I tried to issue
> --exclude=wl-xemacs --exclude=gda-postgres but this had no effect. I had
> to rpm -e these two packages to get my 700Mb update rolling on my x86_64
> box.

yum's --exclude doesn't work on packages in your local rpmdb.

Do you still have the actual error messages you were seeing?

-sv