Can yum download to a pen-drive?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 24 April 2008 20:31, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> On Thursday 24 April 2008 20:12, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>> Now I have a couple of unresolved dependencies.  I have yum-utils
>>>>> installed. Isn't that supposed to provide skip-broken?  It doesn't seem
>>>>> to be working.
>>>> It doesn't work like that. Previously skip-broken was a separate plugin.
>>>> In the more recent versions, yum base itself has this feature.
>>>>
>>>> # yum update --skip-broken
>>>>
>>>> Having said that, you might want to list the exact output before running
>>>> with the skip-broken argument so that we can try and resolve the actual
>>>> issue.
>>> The problems all seem to revolve around kde-settings-pulse-audio. 
>>> Missing dependencies xine-lib-pulseaudio, kde-settings
>>>
>>> There are quite a number of lines, but they all revolve around these. 
>>> Can you suggest an exclude that would get me past them?
>> # yum update --exclude=foo,bar\*
>>
> Do you  happen to know where '\' is on a US keyboard?

It is above the enter key for me but probably does differ a bit between 
keyboards. You don't need a \* unless you are excluding multiple 
packages starting with the same name. \ is for escaping the shell.

Rahul