Exclude package from update?

[Todd Zullinger]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Maybe a really stupid question, but is there a way (similar to
> package.mask in Gentoo) to exclude a package from being updated with
> yum?  I've installed the CACTI rpm from the main site, since I like
> how it installs things better than the Extras version.  But any time
> I want to update, it gets included and blows away my config.  (Thank
> goodness for backups)

Something like "excludes=cacti*" in /etc/yum.conf or in the extras
repo file should do what you want.

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