OK guys - yum is "too smart"

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Sat Aug 13 01:43:32 UTC 2005


From: "Claude Jones" <claude_jones at levitjames.com>

> 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.

Yeah, but then I also have to exclude evolution. There should be a way to
force things to be "my way". {^_-}

{^_^} 





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