Bug 161660

Summary:	yum fails to honor --exclude= settings
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	james
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description james 2005-06-25 03:05:05 UTC

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Description of problem:
$ yum -y --exclude=gnome-blog --exclude=rpm-devel --exclude=wl-xemacs update
...
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: apel-xemacs >= 10.5 is needed by package wl-xemacs
Error: Missing Dependency: sqlite-devel is needed by package rpm-devel

Additionally, yum is still missing a command line switch to force yum to continue to install other packages.
Yum can still not be used in automated scripts, but must be managed interactively.  The probability of a failed 
update, for one reason or another, usually dependency related, is around 50%.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-2.3.2-7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.yum -y --exclude=gnome-blog --exclude=rpm-devel --exclude=wl-xemacs update
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2005-06-27 05:48:36 UTC

yum's excluding doesn'y ignore installed packages.

What's happening is that something is removing or updating an installed package
and  other installed packages are complaining about a dep going away.

in the case of wl-xemacs - the only option is to remove wl-xemacs iirc.