Up2date not being maintained any longer?

[seth vidal]

> For yum, it would be nice if you could yum -y update and get the 
> updates. The problem is that it had over 100 rpms that it could 
> successfully update if it would do its best. Up2date does the same 
> thing, so not really an up2date vs. yum issue. With a customized and 
> manually edited script, I could get yum to do what I wanted by using the 
> information related to what up2date was trying to install.

I keep suggesting you use the yum shell and you don't seem to have tried
it.

Try this, please:

yum shell
> update
> transaction solve
  <some error occurs here>
> exclude package-that-causes-error
> update
> transaction solve
  <no errors>
> run
> quit

ta da!

-sv