I.   Things are not how we would think.
1.  ooffice3.2.1 is installed in /opt/openoffice.org3
     however,  ibuno_sal_so.3 is installed @ /opt/openoffice.org/ure/lib.
     Different directories.
This works.  Would not expect it.
2.  When you "yum erase openoffice.org-base.i386" it complains that it cannot
       find ibuno_sal.so.3.
       According to "yum erase  openoffice.org3" it is looking for the file in 	
openoffice.org3
3.  This may be why the open office script fails.   In the bump in the night - 
some how the path to the libs get changed!   When you 
run /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice from a terminal window the message 
is that it cannot find the ibuno_sal.so.3 lib.
The lib path must be hard coded and not in the directory where the rest of the 
program is installed.

II.  Excluding openoffice.org-base.i386
The script to exclude it does not work - there has to be something missing.
yum --exclude=openoffice.org-ure*
doesn't work.  I am missing something.

Manually edited the /etc/yum/yum.cron.excludes and added the line
exclude=openoffice.org-ure.

Thanks for your help.  
Larry Linder

On Wednesday 04 August 2010 03:24, Hervé Riboulot wrote:
>   Hello,
>
> When using the daily yum update, you can directly exclude any update of
> the openoffice.org-ure (providing libuno_sal.so.3 ) by setting up
> accordingly the  /etc/yum.d/yum.cron.excludes.
>
> Just have a look to the README file. Quote: "If there are certain rpm
> packages that you do not want to be updated with the daily yum update.
> By default the kernel is already in this file.  If you wish to add more
> rpm packages, you need to list each one individually, all on the same
> line, adding to those that are already there".
>
> The general syntax is: exclude=.
>
> If you intend to manually process the update, the syntax will be:
>
> # yum --exclude=openoffice.org-ure*
>
> Note that yumex proposes a GUI which comprises tools for managing the
> 'exclude' instruction (the related configuration file is /etc/yumex.conf).
>
> Le 03.08.2010 22:10, Kinzel, David a écrit :
> >> If you use the official install you do not get a working
> >> system because
> >> ibuno_sal.so.3 is not being installed.  The script is broken.
> >
> > Official install being (from OO or SL)? openoffice.org-ure should be
> > providing libuno_sal.so.3, at least in SL and upstream repos.
> >
> > Can you manually run yum before the automated script, and see what is
> > triggering your packages to be removed or upgraded?
> >
> > rpm -qa 'openoffice*' may be useful for people to see what versions are
> > interacting here.
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