Up2date fails to update pppd

[Boris Glawe]

Jose Luis Labarta wrote:

> Not for sure but i think up2date use yum and yum have a bug with that, 
> if want update do:
> yum --exclude=initscripts --exclude=ppp --exclude=pppd upgrade
> (thanks to Pedro Macedo for that information)
> I think it works fine for your problem.
> Chris Jones wrote:


yum is a frontend for rpm. it's not yum's fault. If you try to install 
the package manually, you get the same error. There is a bug in the new 
ppp package, as posted further down.