Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 161660
yum fails to honor --exclude= settings
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:52:04 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Opera/8.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) 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. 3. Additional info:
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.