protect a pkg from updates

[Phil Savoie]

On 04/06/13 02:38 AM, Mertens, Bram wrote:
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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
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>> Hi All,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> You may want to look at http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-centos-fedora-yum-protect-packages-from-certain-repositories/
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> Regards
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> Bram
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Thank you, Bram...  That seems to have done the trick as I do not see 
any more update reminders for the flash-plugin.

Phil