How to disable yum update for some packages?

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:10:30AM +1100, Yuandan Zhang wrote:
> On 3/3/06, Daniel Silva <danielnsilva at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > In last update i had some problems with new versions of some
> > libraries. So i need to disable yum update for some packages? Is this
> > possible?
> 
> 
> in your yum  configuration file, ie /etc/yum.conf or yum.repos.d/fedora-
> updates.repo
> add
> exclude=packagename
> 
> 
> /daniel
It seems to be that it is more flexible to run:
yum --exclude="packagename" update
and the in this form can contain * characters.  So you can exclude all
rpms whose name starts with kernel by using :
--exclude="kernel*"
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