yum-updatesd excludes

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 25 January 2008, Rex Dieter wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> I've made a list of certain things I do not want to be nagged about in the
>> yum plugins.d, and yumex seems to honor them just fine.
>>
>> But yum-updatesd pops up a nagger every 5 or 10 minutes cuz it thinks
>> older stuff is newer.  That's a PITA.  How can I stop it short of
>> stopping this daemon?
>
>Add
>excludes=foo
>(foo = list of things you do not want to be nagged about)
>to /etc/yum.conf
>
Doing this, thanks Rex

>or
>/sbin/service yum-updatesd stop
>/sbin/chkconfig yum-updatesd off
>to disable it altogether.
>
>-- Rex



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