FC1 Users: Sample .... One more problem

[Beartooth]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:10:30 -0700, Jon Savage wrote:


>> I have slogged through man yum and man yum.conf, but can't seem to find a
>> command that tells yum to update everything *but* galeon. Is there one??

> Try doing: yum --exclude=galeon update
> snipped from man yum: 
> --exclude=package
>               Exclude  a  specific package by name or glob from updates on all
>               repositories.
>               Configuration Option: excludped from man yum:

Very odd, root and branch, very odd indeed. I tried that first on this
machine (an athlon about a year and a half old, I believe; I can find the
hardware browser if anyone thinks that would help), forgetting the trouble
was on the other. That got 
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[root at localhost root]# yum --exclude=galeon update
Options Error: option --exclude not recognized 
                (snip)
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Then I remembered to go to the backup machine (which, unlike this one, has
not yet successfully been through an update, in case that matters) -- and
it didn't get the option error, but did still get the dependency error!

So I tried "yum update --exclude=galeon" instead, reversing the order.
This time I got "Cannot find any package matching --exclude=galeon
available to be updated. No actions to take."

Now I *am* befuddled!

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