OK guys - yum is "too smart"

[Tony Nelson]

At 7:14 PM -0400 8/12/05, Claude Jones wrote:
>On Friday 12 August 2005 6:00 pm, jdow wrote:
>> I am involved, to a slight degree, in testing spamassassin. So I cannot
>> update spamassassin via yum. It'll break my system badly. I have it
>> installed via other means.
>>
>> So how do I exclude spamassassin from the update and force the update for
>> evolution which should be perfectly happy with the spamassassin I have
>> installed?
>>
>> {^_^}
>Did you try this?
>yum --exclude=spamassassin update
>>From "man yum" (if you want more details)  Exclude a specific package by
>>name
>or glob from updates on all repositories.

You can also put that into /etc/yum.conf:

    exclude=spamassassin

See man yum.
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