Bug 161660 - yum fails to honor --exclude= settings
Summary: yum fails to honor --exclude= settings
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 4
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-06-25 03:05 UTC by james
Modified: 2014-01-21 22:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-06-27 05:49:22 UTC
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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
2.
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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.



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