yum update fails, looking for "libpq.so.3"

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:47 -0400, Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:39:48PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Michael Weiner wrote:
> > 
> > > i get EXACTLY the same behavior, so you are not going insane  :)
> > 
> > as a quick fix (for now), i just "yum remove"d postgresql-libs and let
> > yum deal with the dependencies on libpq.so.3.  it's updating as we
> > speak, and i'll worry about putting the postgresql stuff back in
> > tomorrow.  no big deal.  sorry, i didn't mean to start such an
> > animated discussion.
> 
> I did something like this:
> 
> yum -y --exclude='postgresql*' --exclude='libdbi*' --exclude='*php*' 
> --exclude='dovecot' update
> 
> which passed the transaction check and started running the 
> transaction, but then yum tracebacked:
> 
> Transaction Summary                                                             
> =============================================================================   
> Install      4 Package(s)                                                       
> Update     183 Package(s)                                                       
> Remove       0 Package(s)                                                       
> Total download size: 677 M                                                      
> Downloading Packages:                                                           
> Running Transaction Test                                                        
> Finished Transaction Test                                                       
> Transaction Test Succeeded                                                      
> Running Transaction                                                             
> Traceback (most recent call last):                                                
> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 15, in ?                                                
> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])                                                    
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 149, in main                           
> base.doTransaction()                                                          
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 651, in doTransaction                      
> self.runTransaction(cb=cb)                                                    
> File "__init__.py", line 333, in runTransaction                               
> NameError: global name 'yum' is not defined           

Need to know what those packages are that are being updated.

-sv