yum: how to stop upgrading kernel ?

[Scott R. Godin]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 06:24 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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.

also you can equally use --exclude=kernel\* 

this method works equally well for install/update with yum on the
commandline

for example (yum update n\*) updates any packages starting with the
letter n :) 

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