OK guys - yum is "too smart"

Claude Jones claude_jones at levitjames.com
Fri Aug 12 23:14:43 UTC 2005


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.
-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA




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