yum: how to stop upgrading kernel ?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 00:46 +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to setup yum to upgrade my system but not the kernel.
> I tried exclude=kernel* in the '/etc/yum.conf' file but obviously this doesn't 
> work.
> 
> (note : reason is I'm using some applications that need recompilation of their 
> specific modules per kernel which start to be cumbersome as kernel is often 
> upgraded)
> 
> Bye,
> Bruno
> 

It is a question of how the * is interpreted.
yum --exclude="kernel*" upgrade
will stop any rpm starting with kernel from being upgraded.
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