yum update fails - test pup's capabilities..

[Horst von Brand]

David Timms <dtimms at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

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> For the bored of repeating ourselves, can we specify --exclude once,
> but with multiple arguments separated by comma or something ?

No, but...

  yum update --exclude={this,that{,-devel},and-the-other}

... works just fine, due to bash(1)'s brace expansion.
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