A yum question

[mark]

On 11/04/14 20:58, Paul Whitney wrote:
> Does using the —downloadonly —downloaddir= option help test that?
>

Nope. And I tried yum update --disableexcludes --include=<package> and the 
former defeats the latter option.


	mark

> Paul
>
>
>> On Nov 4, 2014, at 5:08 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>> m.roth at 5-cent.us <mailto:m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>>> Hi, folks.
>>>
>>>    Quiet on this list.... Here's a yum question. On some of my servers, in
>>> he yum.conf, I've got excludes set up. Now, when I do a full update, on
>>> the command line, I do a disableexcludes=all. The man page for yum says
>>> my only options are all, main, or repo. One of the excludes, which is
>>> on a few servers, I really don't ever want to update unless I do it
>>> manually. The other excludes are for things like video drivers,
>>> kernels, httpd... and those get updated after scheduling updates with
>>> the system owners.
>>>
>>>    I'm currently working on a script that would assure that the updates I
>>> did earlier in the week, or the week before, are what would be updated
>>> on the production machines, and *NOT* anything newer, so that prod
>>> matches what's been tested in test.
>>>
>>>    So, is there a way to override the excludes in yum.conf, *except* for
>>> the one package that I don't want updated? I really don't want to do
>>> rpm -qa | grep -v <package> > /tmp/current, then yum update $(cat
>>> /tmp/current). I *support* I could do yum -n update | grep -v <package>
>>>> /tmp/update, and feed that to yum... but if there's a cleaner, more
>>> elegant way to do it, I'd appreciate knowing it.
>>>
>>
>> Following myself up, I finally remembered what I was trying to ask: if I say
>> yum update disableexcludes=all exclude=<package>
>> will that work, and let me update everything including the packages that
>> are excluded in yum.conf, but *not* the one package excluded on the
>> command line?
>>
>>       mark
>>
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