Solved: Configuring yum with --exclude

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 04:49:13 UTC 2007


On 26/04/07, linuxmaillists at charter.net <linuxmaillists at charter.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > False alarm. Found it:
> > In /etc/yum.conf I added:
> > exclude mplayer*
> > exclude openoffice*
>
> It won't work with each one on a separate line, they have be
> one the same line separated by a comma like Rahul showed
> you in his post.
>

Thanks. I did put them on one line, without the comma however:
exclude=mplayer* openoffice*

It works fine like this, without the comma. Thank you for the
attention to detail.

Dotan Cohen

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