[Spacewalk-list] Excluding kernel updates

[Jon Miller]

Steve Ensley writes:

> 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.

We have a similar requirement and my approach has been to exclude the
packages via local yum configuration overrides. That way you can sync &
manage your channels normally. 

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Jon Miller