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

[James Hogarth]

2010/8/19 Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com>:
> 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.
>
>

Yes... one thing I prefer about my Ubuntu desktop over my CentOS systems...

If the apt-get plugin gets finished for spacewalk that someone was
doing might give a few test servers a go on it ;)

If it becomes too much of a headache I'll configure yum locally on the
boxes to ignore those packages...

James