protect a pkg from updates

[Mertens, Bram]

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> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of psavoie1783
> Sent: dinsdag 4 juni 2013 5:47
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: protect a pkg from updates
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have enabled the rpmforge repo to get the flash-plugin because this
> seems to do what I want instead of the flash-plug that is in the
> supplemental repo.  When the rpmforge pkg is install yum wants to update
> it using the redhat repo.  The version does not work as the sites I go
> to says it is too old.  Yet the pkg from rpmforge works well.
>
> How do I get yum to *not* want to upgrade this from the RH repo?  I
> checked the yum and yum.conf man pages but I did not see exactly what I
> want to do there as an option.

You may want to look at http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-centos-fedora-yum-protect-packages-from-certain-repositories/

Regards

Bram