yum update, ignore permanently some packages

Michael Schwendt ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de
Fri Dec 19 08:20:43 UTC 2003


On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:31:01 +0800, Dexter Ang wrote:

> Hey folks,
> 
> Just wondering if there is a way to permanently ignore a package update
> in yum.conf. my specific situation is: I have installed shorewall rpm
> from shorewall.net. Now, whenever I run yum update, it says I have to
> update shorewall. But all it downloads is the small package, and not
> shorewall-doc (2mb) package. When it does this, it breaks shorewall. 

How does it break?

> So whenever I have to update, I do it manually (meaning yum update
> <package1> <package2> ... etc), without adding shorewall. Is there a way
> to permanently ignore the shorewall package from fedora.us?

I don't advise to ignore the Shorewall packages from fedora.us and
are confused by your description.

But you can read "man yum.conf" and then add

  exclude=shorewall shorewall-doc

to you /etc/yum.conf file.
 
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