How to disable yum update for some packages?

[Paul Howarth]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 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*"

The "--exclude" command-line option is exactly the same as the "exclude" 
configuration file option. Both support wildcards. So you'd use the 
command-line option for one-off exclusions, and the configuration file 
option if you always wanted to exclude certain packages.

Paul.