"exclude" in yum.conf and yumex.conf

Clint Dilks clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz
Wed Jul 21 23:06:54 UTC 2010


On 22/07/10 10:59, Jim Tate wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 06:30 PM, Jim Tate wrote:
>    
>> On 07/21/2010 06:20 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>      
>>> Jim Tate writes:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> FC13-i686
>>>>
>>>> I do not want to update the Fedora kernel, kernel-headers.
>>>>    I put in  yum.conf and yumex.conf , exclude=kernel and
>>>> exclude=kernel-headers but yumex still tries  to update the kernel.
>>>> Why ?
>>>>
>>>> I do not have any kmods or kernel-devel installed
>>>>          
>>> Only one "exclude" setting. As per yum.conf man page, multiple
>>> entries in a single exclude setting, space separated.
>>>
>>> Also, look closely. Do you have "kernel" or "kernel-PAE" installed?
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> kernel, only is installed.
>>
>> So I guess if I take out the exclude=kernel-headers, that should do
>> the trick.
>>
>> Thanks for the responds.
>>      
> Well I took the exclude=kernel-headers out of yum.conf and yumex.conf
> and now yumex wants to update the kernel-headers and not the kernel.
>
> So if yumex shows a hundred updates I will have to check each individual
> package and not check kernel-headers, not being able to just click on
> 'Select All"
>
> If I did "Select All" then I couldn't uncheck kernel-headers because
> yumex would still try to update kernel-headers, once it has been
> checked, and you know what would happen then, the kernel is a dependency
> of kernel-headers and it would be updated.
>
> This is no win situation.
>
>    
Hi

You exclude line can have multiple items just on one line seperated by 
spaces

exclude=kernel kernel-headers myboguspackage


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