Exclude syntax for yum
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Thu Sep 9 13:53:54 UTC 2004
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:20:52AM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Do, den 09.09.2004 schrieb Charles Curley um 2:56:
>
> > I would like to exclude a particular kernel from one machine. I have
> > edited yum.conf like so:
> >
> > exclude=kernel-2.6.8-1.521.i586
> >
> > I still get that kernel in my list of upgrades. How do I specify it
> > correctly?
>
> Hm, yum will only update to the latest kernel available. So there is
> normally no need to exclude any specific version.
If the latest version is the one you want to exclude.
> But if you like I would try
>
> exclude=kernel#2.6.8-1.521
Nope, didn't work. Nor did:
exclude=kernel#2.6.8-1.521.i586
However, this does work:
exclude=kernel
So I will leave it like that until the next kernel is released.
The yum version is 2.0.7.
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