YUM Question

[Alexander Apprich]

Hi Joachim,

Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in my /etc/yum.conf, there is an option
> 
> 	exclude=kernel*
> 
> But is seems to be without any effect: If a update my system by
> 
> 	yum update
> 
> it offers the kernel packages too.
> 
> Only when using
> 
> 	yum --exclude kernel'*' update
> 
> then the kernel packages are not offered for update.
> What I'm dowing wrong?
> 

did you place exclude=kernel* in the [main] section of yum.conf?
I just tried it, and it works as expected.

Alex