Package Manager/Yum: Is there an exclusion list?

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Mon Aug 24 00:20:38 UTC 2009


On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:54:20 -0700
Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

> Is there a Package Manager/Yum exclusion
> list where I can prevent PM/Y from updating
> certain packages?

Yep. In /etc/yum.conf in the [main] section
put a line like I have:

exclude=freenx nx nxclient freenx-server

(I've got a very old version of freenx that works
flawlessly I don't dare fool with till I'm
forced to upgrade :-).




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