Blocking auto-update of Kernel

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Is there an option to stop the F12 auto-update system updating my
kernel. I want to avoid a situation where my kernel gets updated but
there isn't a matching Madwifi rpm in the repositories?

Best regards
James

[Mohamed El Morabity]

2009/12/30 James Allsopp
> Hi,
> Is there an option to stop the F12 auto-update system updating my
> kernel. I want to avoid a situation where my kernel gets updated but
> there isn't a matching Madwifi rpm in the repositories?
>
> Best regards
> James
>
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Hi,

by default yum keeps the last 3 kernels installed. But you can set yum to
keep all the updated kernels (see the installonly_limit key in
/etc/yum.conf).

Anyway I don't know any third-party repository that still provides madwifi
drivers, since Atheros chipsets are supported by the vanilla kernel for a
moment. Why do you still need madwifi? Which repo providing madwifi for F12
have you?

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Pikachu_2014 wrote:
> 2009/12/30 James Allsopp
>
> Hi,
> > Is there an option to stop the F12 auto-update system updating my
> > kernel. I want to avoid a situation where my kernel gets updated but
> > there isn't a matching Madwifi rpm in the repositories?
> >
> > Best regards
> > James
> >
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> > [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
> > Guidelines:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
>
> Hi,
>
> by default yum keeps the last 3 kernels installed. But you can set yum to
> keep all the updated kernels (see the installonly_limit key in
> /etc/yum.conf).
>
> Anyway I don't know any third-party repository that still provides madwifi
> drivers, since Atheros chipsets are supported by the vanilla kernel for a
> moment. Why do you still need madwifi? Which repo providing madwifi for F12
> have you?

Atheros drivers never worked reliably for me.  I lost the connection with
them every 5 min. I am still using ndiswrapper and the windows driver. I
think it depends on the router one is using.

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:01 PM, James Allsopp <[e-mail]
> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there an option to stop the F12 auto-update system updating my
> kernel. I want to avoid a situation where my kernel gets updated but
> there isn't a matching Madwifi rpm in the repositories?

Adding

exclude=kernel*

to you /etc/yum.conf?