yum - prevent Redhat-Release update

[dbcooper]

Andrew,

Yeah I think I was in overload mode I just read that man on it before
checking my email. hehehe.
I guess I just wanted to be sure the old "exclude" would stop a release
update but allow me to keep grabbing all the other packages that comes out
with the new release.

I think I was confused about that more than anything.

Thanks to you and everyone that replied.

Take care,


On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Andrew Bacchi <bacchi at rpi.edu> wrote:

> read the yum.conf man page, it has an exclude list you can add to the
> configuration file.  Here's the quote from the man page.
>
> exclude
>             List of packages to exclude from updates or installs. This
> should be
>             a space separated list.  Shell globs using wildcards (eg. *
>  and  ?)
>             are allowed.
>
>
>
> dbcooper wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was just wondering how do I stop "yum" from updating to the newest
>> redhat-release (I.E. Kernel) but continue to get all the newest packages?
>> I've looked at using the security plugin option, but I want to keep
>> getting
>> everything that gets released (not just security updates).
>>
>> I know in the 4 and below days we had the option to exclude items in the
>> up2date configuration, can I simply add exclude or skip lists in the yum
>> configuration file?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
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