yum - prevent Redhat-Release update

Andrew Bacchi bacchi at rpi.edu
Mon Jun 2 23:27:58 UTC 2008


read the yum.conf man page, it has an exclude list you can add to the 
configuration file.  Here's the quote from the man page.

 exclude
              List of packages to exclude from updates or installs. This 
should be
              a space separated list.  Shell globs using wildcards (eg. 
*  and  ?)
              are allowed.


dbcooper wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was just wondering how do I stop "yum" from updating to the newest
> redhat-release (I.E. Kernel) but continue to get all the newest packages?
> I've looked at using the security plugin option, but I want to keep getting
> everything that gets released (not just security updates).
>
> I know in the 4 and below days we had the option to exclude items in the
> up2date configuration, can I simply add exclude or skip lists in the yum
> configuration file?
>
> Thanks,
>   

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