[rhn-users] yum equivalents for up2date

[Miroslav Suchý]

Bob - RedHat wrote:
> Now that up2date has been replaced with yum I need to know how to do the 
> following:
> 
> 1) Have a package skip list to exclude packages from automatic 
> updating.  With up2date it is handled with the --configure option and 
> specifying a list like this: "pkgSkipList ['kernel*', 'httpd*', 
> 'mysql*', 'php*']".  How to do the same with yum?

manually edit file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date and key removeSkipList

> 2) For those packages skipped I download them manually at my leisure 
> with up2date like this: up2date -fud.  How to do the same with yum?
Do not know. But you can enforce this from RHN webUI.

> 3) Lastly, when the time is right, I install and test the packages, with 
> up2date like this: up2date -fui. How to do the same with yum?

Do not know.

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Miroslav Suchy
RHN Sustaining Engineering, Red Hat