Hello John, On Thursday 28 April 2011, 22:48, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:25:47 -0300 > > Ariel Constenla-Haile <ariel.constenla.ha...@googlemail.com> dijo: > >Hello John, > > > >On Thursday 28 April 2011, 20:09, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:24:01 -0300 > >> > >> Ariel Constenla-Haile <ariel.constenla.ha...@googlemail.com> dijo: > >> >On Wednesday 27 April 2011, 23:08, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> >> I have OOo 3.2.1 (OOO320m18 (Build 9502) on Fedora 14 x86_64. > >> >> This is the version I downloaded from OOo, not the version in the > >> >> Fedora repos. I do not wish to upgrade it. > >> >> > >> >> After installing it I added: > >> >> > >> >> exclude=openoffice.org* > >> >> > >> >> To /etc/yum.conf. This stopped the Software Update utility from > >> >> constantly telling me there was a (supposedly) newer version > >> >> available. > >> >> > >> >> All has been lovely in Fedora-land. But today Software Update > >> >> announced that: > >> >> > >> >> openoffice.org-ure-1:3.3.3.0-20.5.fc14(x86_64) > >> >> > >> >> Is available. I am perplexed why my exclude statement did not > >> >> work on this package, but I added: > >> >> > >> >> exclude=openoffice.org-ure-* > >> > > >> >openoffice.org-ure- is the a wrong package name, it won't match when > >> >excluding. The following line works fine: > >> > > >> >exclude=openoffice.org-ure > >> > >> Thanks for the suggestion, but it still does not exclude the > >> package. I have tried: > >> > >> exclude=openoffice.org-ure > >> exclude=openoffice.org-ure* > >> exclude=openoffice.org-ure- > >> exclude=openoffice.org-ure-* > >> exclude=openoffice.org-ure-1:3.3.3.0-20.5.fc14(x86_64) > >> > >> In addition to the original exclude line that has been there for a > >> long time: > >> > >> exclude=openoffice.org* > >> > >> And the Software Update utility still shows: > >> > >> openoffice.org-ure-1:3.3.3.0-20.5.fc14(x86_64) > >> > >> As available for update. > > > >this is quite strange, I only have this line and works fine: > > > >exclude=openoffice.org-ure > > > >on the PC, where I install dev-builds (3.4), and the ure package is > >the only one that conflicts in version mumber. > > > >On the notebook I have this line only: > > > >exclude=openoffice* > > > >and also works fine (Fedora 14, OOo 3.3). > >Try if it works leaving only that line. > > OK, I am figuring something out here, except I'm not sure exactly how > it works. Apparently the /etc/yum.conf file can contain only a certain > number of exclude lines, and maybe they have to be in a certain order. > Or something. > > I actually have two things I want to exclude: One is anything relating > to OOo, and the other is anything related to VLGothic fonts (for > Japanese). > > I've tried all kinds of exclude lines, and no combination can seem to > exclude everything. For years I had just: > > exclude=openoffice.org* > > Then I added just a few days ago: > > exclude=VLGothic-fonts-* > > After adding the VLGothic line is when the Software Update GUI started > showing me the openoffice.org-ure package. My current theory is that > it reads only the last exclude line and disregards all exclude lines > before it. Here is the exact total of my /etc/yum.conf file: > > ------- > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > keepcache=0 > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > exactarch=1 > obsoletes=1 > gpgcheck=1 > plugins=1 > installonly_limit=3 > > # This is the default, if you make this bigger yum won't see if the > metadata # is newer on the remote and so you'll "gain" the bandwidth of > not having to # download the new metadata and "pay" for it by yum not > having correct # information. > # It is esp. important, to have correct metadata, for distributions > like # Fedora which don't keep old packages around. If you don't like > this checking # interupting your command line usage, it's much better > to have something # manually check the metadata once an hour > (yum-updatesd will do this). # metadata_expire=90m > > # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo > # in /etc/yum.repos.d > > #exclude=openoffice.org* > #exclude=openoffice.org-ure* > #exclude=openoffice.org-ure-1:3.3.3.0-20.5.fc14(x86_64) > #exclude=VLGothic-fonts-* > exclude=openoffice* > exclude=VLGothic* > ------- > > And with the above settings the Software Update utility presents me > with the openoffice.org-ure package, but not the VLGothic fonts package. > If I reverse the last two exclude lines it shows me the VLGothic fonts > package, but not the openoffice.org-ure package. > > So perhaps there is a bug in the way the Software Update utility reads > the file, or in Yum, or someplace. Or maybe I need to change a setting > somewhere to make it respect all the exclude lines. Or something else > is wrong. > > At this point I think I need to take this to the Fedora forums, but if > anyone can shed any light on the way the exclude lines work > in /etc/yum.conf, I'd be delighted to know.
try man yum.conf exclude List of packages to exclude from updates or installs. This should be a space separated list. Shell globs using wildcards (eg. * and ?) are allowed. notice the "space separated list." So yours should be exclude=openoffice* VLGothic* Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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