Description of problem: If the user has exclude=something* in yum.conf so that those packages don't get updated automatically during a "yum update" or PackageKit update, there is no indication given to the user to remind them that they are excluded. If the user then later wants to manually "yum install" a package that is covered by the exclude glob, or if such a package has a requirement for an excluded package, the user may spend hours pulling their hair out trying to figure out why the "yum install" is failing. Even "yum localinstall" will fail to work if the local package name matches the exclude glob. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.27-2.fc12.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /etc/yum.conf: exclude=xorg* 2. yum install xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi 3. yum install libXpm-devel 4. yum localinstall xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.2-9.fc12.noarch.rpm Actual results: Various error messages such as "No package xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi available" or dependency check errors. Expected results: The error messages are somewhat misleading, since the packages may really be there, but they have just been excluded. Kindly remind the user either at the top of every transaction, or when the error message is printed, that they have excluded packages that may be causing the error. Your users will thank you :-)
One recent feature, is that when you do: yum repolist ...it will tell you how many packages are available and how many are "excluded-ish" (this triggers on excluded being set, but contains a few other things). The big problem with listing excluded packages is that we exclude them at such a low level, so it'd need quite a bit of work just to list them somewhere. A decent gui should be able to do it easily though, so while I'm not closing this yet ... it might get closed eventually.
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