Problem With yum update

[David Boles]

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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Boris Glawe <public at boris-glawe.de> writes:
>> You can exclude the kernel upgrade, in order to at least update the
>> rest of the packages.
>>
>> yum -y --exclude="kernel*" update
>
> This strikes me as a bug in yum.  I don't understand why it just
> doesn't upgrade the rest of the rpm's that have no dependency
> problems.  Perhaps someone should put in a bugzilla on this.
>
> I've got one remote system that stopped yum updating months ago over
> some insignificant program having a dependency problem on some other
> insignificant library.  Ideally I'd like to see the security fixes
> continue to be applied even if some silly gui and a set of libs it
> depends on can't be upgraded.
>
> -wolfgang
There is a yum plugin for that      yum-skip-broken.  Try it. It works
well.

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  David
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