While talking with my fellow colleague Darren Birkett about what seems a design limitation
of yum to not be able to force listing the excludes from yum. I had a
shoot to make a yum plugin to force listing the excludes.
Here is how it works :
root@centos5:~> grep exclude /etc/yum.conf
exclude=rpm*
root@centos5:~> yum install rpm-devel
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Loading “changelog” plugin
Loading “chmouel” plugin
Loading “priorities” plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do
rpm* is excluded, but if we use the environment variable FORCE_EXCLUDE
it will force it.
root@centos5:~> FORCE_EXCLUDE=true yum install rpm-devel
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Loading “changelog” plugin
Loading “chmouel” plugin
Loading “priorities” plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
–> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
-–> Downloading header for rpm-devel to pack into transaction set.
rpm-devel-4.4.2-47.el5.i3 100% |=========================| 17 kB 00:00
-–> Package rpm-devel.i386 0:4.4.2-47.el5 set to be updated
–> Running transaction check
[…..]
It will allow you to list the excluded rpm as well :
root@centos5:~> FORCE_EXCLUDE=true yum list|grep rpm
rpm.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
rpm-libs.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
rpm-python.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
redhat-rpm-config.noarch 8.0.45-22.el5.centos base
rpm-build.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 base
rpm-devel.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 base
root@centos5:~> yum list|grep rpm
rpm.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
rpm-libs.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
rpm-python.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
redhat-rpm-config.noarch 8.0.45-22.el5.centos base
See the README.txt in the rpm file to see how to use/install it.