yum update fails, looking for "libpq.so.3"

[Chuck R. Anderson]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:39:48PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Michael Weiner wrote:
> 
> > i get EXACTLY the same behavior, so you are not going insane  :)
> 
> as a quick fix (for now), i just "yum remove"d postgresql-libs and let
> yum deal with the dependencies on libpq.so.3.  it's updating as we
> speak, and i'll worry about putting the postgresql stuff back in
> tomorrow.  no big deal.  sorry, i didn't mean to start such an
> animated discussion.

I did something like this:

yum -y --exclude='postgresql*' --exclude='libdbi*' --exclude='*php*' 
--exclude='dovecot' update

which passed the transaction check and started running the 
transaction, but then yum tracebacked:

Transaction Summary                                                             
=============================================================================   
Install      4 Package(s)                                                       
Update     183 Package(s)                                                       
Remove       0 Package(s)                                                       
Total download size: 677 M                                                      
Downloading Packages:                                                           
Running Transaction Test                                                        
Finished Transaction Test                                                       
Transaction Test Succeeded                                                      
Running Transaction                                                             
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 15, in ?                                                
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])                                                    
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 149, in main                           
base.doTransaction()                                                          
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 651, in doTransaction                      
self.runTransaction(cb=cb)                                                    
File "__init__.py", line 333, in runTransaction                               
NameError: global name 'yum' is not defined