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[David Timms]

Erwin Rol wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 07:15 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Erwin Rol wrote:
>>
>>> Since there are still packages that depend on the old dbus it is still
>>> not possible to do a simple "yum update". Is there a better way to
>>> update the packages that can be updated without hand picking them from
>>> the list ?
>> yum --exclude=
>> where you --exclude= the troublemakers.
> 
> That is just as painfull, cause you have to exclude _all_ packages that
> use the new dbus. Just excluding the ones that use the old dbus won't
> work, since they are already installed. 
> 
> so instead on picking the packages one by one that you want to install,
> you suggest that i pick the packages one by one that can't be installed.
Erwin, have you given the GUI Package Updater pup a go ? At least when 
the process determines that it wouldn't be able to complete, you can 
uncheck the packages that seem problematic, and give it a second go.

DaveT.