[Spacewalk-list] "Whitelisting" certain RPMs

[Dimitri Yioulos]

Good morning (at least where I am), list.

On some of my CentOS servers, there are certain packages 
installed.  mainly as dependencies, for which, 
unfortunately, there are seldom updates for them, or the 
updates won't work with the main packages.  Examples are 
perl-Digest-SHA and libyaml.  So, when doing general 
updates on those servers via yum, one would use 
the --exclude switch.  What I've done is whitelisted those 
packages in yum.conf, so as to avoid having to use the 
switch.  I hope I explained that clearly.

Regarding Spacewalk, is it possible to also whitelist those 
packages so that under System Overview, the affected 
systems don't show as needing to update the packages?

Thanks.

Dimitri


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