[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk, RHN plguins...

[Miroslav Suchý]

On 08/19/2010 07:59 AM, James Hogarth wrote:
> I can see it as possible albeit perhaps potentially confusing if care
> not taken. Personally I'd love to be able to hold a package version or
> ignore an update available for a particular package (but still allow it
> to be installed by yum command)... but I know it will be a lot of work
> and I'd probably need to implement myself and submit code... *grumbles
> something about time, lack, dev and environment*

Apt-get has this feature, called pinning:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto
Which is very nice. But I would expect this to be coded directly in yum 
and not in yum-rhn-plugin.


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Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Satellite Engineering