What does this message mean when running up2date?

[Søren Neigaard]

Ahem... because i know how to use up2date... ;) Can i use yum to update 
my system with also? I normally only use yum to install new packges 
with. Does yum handel dependencies as well as up2date when updating?

/Søren

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:30:07AM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote:
> 
>>When running up2date (up2date --nox --update) i get this message:
>>
>>The following Packages were marked to be skipped by your configuration:
>>
>>Name                                    Version        Rel  Reason
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>nfs-utils                               1.0.7          12.FC4Config modified
>>
>>Whats this about? What is nfs-utils?
>>
> 
> I haven't used up2date in a long time but it seems to me it has a file
> or database that you can change of files whose installation are
> skipped. But why are you using up2date rather than yum?

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