Re: how to exclude package from repo

[Thomas Callahan <callahant tessco com>]

Title: Re: how to exclude package from repo

Put a minus in front of the package name under %packages in your ks file. That excludes that package from being installed.

Ie

-kde
-firefox
X11
wireshark

Thanks,
Tom Callahan


On 7/31/07 11:13 AM, "Farkas Levente" <lfarkas bppiac hu> wrote:

> hi,
> is there any way to exclude package or assign priority to repository in
> kickstart file? with yum one can exclude packages from a repo or with
> yum-protect or yum-priority i can assign priority among repos (in conf
> file). who can i do it in a kickstart file? eg. i'd like to install
> kmod-xfs from centosplus repo during kickstart, but unfortunately
> centosplus repo also contains a modified kernel while i wanna use the
> base kernel. so with yum i can protect or give higher priority to base
> and updates and in this case kernel not updated from centos plus, but
> kmod-xfs can be used. of if i can exclude=kernel* from centosplus that's
> another solution. but none of the above work with kickstart.
> is there any way to solve my problem?
> thanks in advance.
>
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