yum - prevent Redhat-Release update

[dbcooper]

Thank you for the reply. I'm sure that will do just fine. :)

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>
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?
>
> "yum update --exclude=kernel" Should probably work for you.
>
> Additionally, you can edit your /etc/yum.conf file, and edit the
> "installonly_limit" line to increase the number of kernels it keeps
> installed.
>
> That way, you could just download and install the kernel, but not
> necessarily boot to it.
>
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