how to exclude package from repo

Farkas Levente lfarkas at bppiac.hu
Tue Jul 31 15:55:51 UTC 2007


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a package from a _given_ repo!

Thomas Callahan wrote:
> Put a minus in front of the package name under %packages in your ks
> file. That excludes that package from being installed.
> 
> Ie
> 
> -kde
> -firefox
> X11
> wireshark
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom Callahan
> 
> 
> On 7/31/07 11:13 AM, "Farkas Levente" <lfarkas at bppiac.hu> wrote:
> 
>     hi,
>     is there any way to exclude package or assign priority to repository in
>     kickstart file? with yum one can exclude packages from a repo or with
>     yum-protect or yum-priority i can assign priority among repos (in conf
>     file). who can i do it in a kickstart file? eg. i'd like to install
>     kmod-xfs from centosplus repo during kickstart, but unfortunately
>     centosplus repo also contains a modified kernel while i wanna use the
>     base kernel. so with yum i can protect or give higher priority to base
>     and updates and in this case kernel not updated from centos plus, but
>     kmod-xfs can be used. of if i can exclude=kernel* from centosplus that's
>     another solution. but none of the above work with kickstart.
>     is there any way to solve my problem?
>     thanks in advance.
> 
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