yum ignore?

[seth vidal]

> Is there a way to tell yum to ignore specific packages when doing an update?  
> I am thinking something like:
> 
> yum update --ignore foo*
> 
> which would be the equivalent of unchecking a package in the up2date GUI.
> 
> This would be useful when there are lots of updates available, but one or two 
> have dependencies that can't be resolved.  Didn't see anything in the man 
> page though...
> 

Hi,
 If you want to get me to notice a mail, don't cc me directly on the
message. That will just really annoy me.

go read yum list messages or my blog for the last day or so - I just
added some functionality to that effect.

-sv