[Spacewalk-list] Excluding kernel updates

[Stephen Herr]

Honestly either of those approaches are probably fine, or you can look 
into the versionlock yum plugin. Just depends on which method you prefer.

-Stephen

On 01/30/2015 11:22 AM, Steve Ensley wrote:
> If I have some machines within a group of machines for which kernel
> updates should not be done due to situation requiring a certain version
> of the kernel, whats the appropriate way to do this.
>
> Currently I have an exclude in the yum.conf which causes them to be
> rejected, but I'm wondering if creating a second channel without the
> kernel patches would be the cleaner, more appropriate approach.  If so,
>   How does one automate the updating of the channel so the packages are
> excluded, or removed post update.
>
> Or is there another way to approach this.
>
> --
> Steve Ensley
>
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