Packagekit Update Applet

[Brian Morrison]

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 01:41 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>>> Is there any way to tell Packagekit Update Applet not to check for new
>>> versions of nspluginwrapper (or anything else for that matter).  The
>>> latest version of nspluginwrapper is broken (That's another issue.), and
>>> it would be nice if Packagekit Update Applet would stop informing me
>>> that the older working version which is installed needs to be
>>> upgraded.  
>>>
>>> The upgrade icon is now pretty near useless, since the applet has to be
>>> started to see whether anything *really* needs to be installed.\
>>
>> You can do exclude=foo* in /etc/yum.conf and PackageKit will honour
>> that.
> 
> Clunky but effective.

Well not really, since PackageKit relies on yum to do the updating and
deal with dependencies there is no advantage to adding more data to a
PackageKit-only set of config files or entries. You have to edit the yum
configuration to make it work for any application which operates as a
yum front end.

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Brian