Yum excluding openoffice from update

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 02:04 -0500, Dwaine Garden wrote:
> I'm trying to exclude openoffice from the yum download.   I can not 
> figure it out.   What the exclude parameter to proceed with the update.
> 
> I tried this.  But it did not work.
> 
> yum --exclude=openoffice.org-libs update
> 
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libdb_cxx-4.2.so for package: openoffice.org-libs
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: missing dep: libdb_cxx-4.2.so for pkg openoffice.org-libs
> 

just for fun, try this:

yum --exclude=openoffice\* update

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