[colug-432] Yum Question

[Michael Siroskey]

An alternative solution with yum is to add --skip-broken to the yum
command.

Michael

On 2/10/12 6:26 PM, Rob Stampfli wrote:
> I'm running CentOS (currently 5.7) on my servers.  Recently CentOS
> issued a number of updates to packages.  Unfortunately, one of them
> (SquirrelMail) seems to be badly crafted:  It squawks a dependency
> for "php-common", when I believe it should allow either "php-common"
> or "php53-common" to satisfy the dependency.  Thus, when I do a
> "yum update", the command fails because "php-common" and "php53-common"
> (which I do have loaded) are mutually exclusive.
> 
> Frankly, I'm in no particular hurry to take the update for squirrelmail.
> However, this conflict is making life a pain:  If I simply do a
> "yum update", it fails.  I have to figure out the list of updated
> packages and then individually specify each one (except squirrelmail)
> on the yum command-line to pull them in.
> 
> My Question: Is there some way of specifying to yum that I'd like
> to exclude one (or more) packages from being considered when I do
> a global "yum update"?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Rob
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