yum question
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sat May 7 15:32:03 UTC 2005
Jude DaShiell wrote:
> When I reinstall the original fedora core 3 speakup operating system on
> this machine later today, what can I tell yum in what way so yum does not
> go and update the alsa-project software? The updates on alsa-project
> software since February 2005 have imposed a completely effective denial of
> service attack on first multimedia functionality and second g.u.i.
> accessibility through gnopernicus on this computer.
You can exclude packages in /etc/yum.conf , even using wildcards, eg
exclude=alsa*
You can exclude several packages eg
exclude=alsa* kernel*
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