YUM Question

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:42:30AM +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in my /etc/yum.conf, there is an option
> 
> 	exclude=kernel*
> 
> But is seems to be without any effect: If a update my system by
> 
> 	yum update
> 
> it offers the kernel packages too.
> 
> Only when using
> 
> 	yum --exclude kernel'*' update
> 
> then the kernel packages are not offered for update.
> What I'm dowing wrong?
> 
This is an old problem you should really use  --exclude="kernel*"
You want yum to expand the * not the shell.
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