Yet more yum help, please

[Bob Gustafson]

It has been awhile since I used --exclude= , but you might try checking 
syntax in yum --help

Also, the '*' might not work. Or you could try escaping the '*' as in:

yum --exclude=up2date\* update

Bob G

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> "yum update" won't work for me on one computer
> because it complains that up2date (an ancient package)
> cannot be updated.
>
> For some reason "yum --exclude=up2date* update"
> does not seem to make any difference:
> ----------------------------
> [root at alfred tim]# yum --exclude=up2date* update
> ...
> Running rpm_check_debug
> ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
> Package up2date needs python(abi) = 2.4, this is not available.
> Complete!
> ----------------------------
>
> There has been no mention of up2date in the transaction
> except for this one.
> So I don't understand why this package was mentioned at all.
>
> I cannot remove it with "rpm -e":
>
> ----------------------------
> [root at alfred tim]# rpm -e -vv --nodeps up2date
> ...
> + /etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd stop
> + /sbin/chkconfig --del rhnsd
> error reading information on service rhnsd: No such file or directory
> D:     erase: waitpid(15510) rc 15510 status 100 secs 0.016
> error: %preun(up2date-4.4.23-4.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
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