yum-updatesd excludes

[Rex Dieter]

Gene Heskett wrote:

> Greetings;
> 
> I've made a list of certain things I do not want to be nagged about in the
> yum plugins.d, and yumex seems to honor them just fine.
> 
> But yum-updatesd pops up a nagger every 5 or 10 minutes cuz it thinks
> older stuff is newer.  That's a PITA.  How can I stop it short of 
> stopping this daemon?

Add 
excludes=foo
(foo = list of things you do not want to be nagged about)
to /etc/yum.conf

or
/sbin/service yum-updatesd stop
/sbin/chkconfig yum-updatesd off
to disable it altogether.

-- Rex