On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:06 PM, fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Updating: openoffice.org-base i386 1:2.0.4-5.4.25 updates 868 k
what I'd like to know is why does it think it needs to update all those openoffice packages? They don't exist on the machine anymore, I removed all of 'em.
The upstream and CentOS openoffice packages provide the same files and use an epoch value ( the 1: in the version string you see above) This value is basically rpm's way of forcing a lower version number to be considered an upgrade.
How can I get it to stop doing this?
You'll have to add an exclude=openoffice* line to your yum.conf or base and updates repositories.