avoid yum to update something

[bravo_25]

Hello:

Each time I run

yum update

I have to be carefull because yum also updates my kernel, which is modified and compiled to be able to run ndiswrapper (w/ 16kstack patch), otherwise it will get hang on next boot.

After running yum update, I always check if /etc/grub.conf has been modified, to leave as default kernel the one I made.


My question is:

Is there a way to avoid yum from updating certain packages? Such as kernel, or kernel-sources ?

Thanks in advance.

[paul matthijsse]

type:
$ yum --help
your answer is there (hint: exclude)

[Seve]

Originally Posted by bravo_25

Hello:

Each time I run

yum update

I have to be carefull because yum also updates my kernel, which is modified and compiled to be able to run ndiswrapper (w/ 16kstack patch), otherwise it will get hang on next boot.

After running yum update, I always check if /etc/grub.conf has been modified, to leave as default kernel the one I made.


My question is:

Is there a way to avoid yum from updating certain packages? Such as kernel, or kernel-sources ?

Thanks in advance.

Hello:
You can do # yum --exclude kernel update
or you can Install yumex and then select by Item what you want updated and exclude what you don't (Probably easier IMO)
Seve

[Firewing1]

Yes, or in /etc/yum.conf you can do "exclude=packages" if I remember correctly...
Firewing1

[u-noneinc-s]

Actually, the "global" exclude is in the yumex config. You can edit it GUI with edit/preferences with each exclude on a new line
or CLI with a space seperated list of excludes, but yum (CLI) will ignore this list.

EDIT. Replace word (do with edit))

[u-noneinc-s]

I just tried, and though exclude is not included in the /etc/yum.conf, it can be added and will work.

exclude = evolution*
         gnome-pilot*
         pilot-link*
         *beagle*
         openoffice.org-langpack*
         libmal

yum check-update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
updates [1/4]
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
core [2/4]
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
macromedia [3/4]
macromedia 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras [4/4]
http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distr...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 22:19:52 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
Content-Length: 348
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Trying other mirror.
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 313 kB 00:02
updates : ################################################## 1000/1000
Added 0 new packages, deleted 12 old in 1.62 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 958 kB 00:06
extras : ################################################## 2670/2670
Added 155 new packages, deleted 580 old in 5.80 seconds
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished

[Firewing1]

Hah, just a little sidetrack - You're like me, eh? I hate beagle, evolution, pilot-link and gnome-pilot. They always require eachother and so you can't remove them easily and I never use them, so they just take up space... It's not that their disfunctional or anything, I just don't use them and they use lots of disk space.
Firewing1

[u-noneinc-s]

Hah, just a little sidetrack - You're like me, eh? I hate beagle, evolution, pilot-link and gnome-pilot. They always require eachother and so you can't remove them easily and I never use them, so they just take up space... It's not that their disfunctional or anything, I just don't use them and they use lots of disk space.
Firewing1

Not so much that I hate them, but I'm a KDE user, and I had problems (if you recall) with Beagle, and there was that
libsomething.so.8 dependency thing, and when that got "fixed", there was a libesomething.so.9 thing (I think it wanted
to remove the so.9 which was needed by kdepim or it wanted to remove kdepim). I'll never own a palm pilot, so I figure
excludiing those packages will be no loss (to me). Otherwis since gnome is the default DT for Fedora, I try to update
everything gnome even though I don't use it.