How to tell yum to exclude updating a package

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 20:02 -0700, JD wrote:
> I ran yum update as follows:
> 
> 
> # yum -y -x=libmad -x=libmad-devel -x=vcdimager -x=vcdimager-libs
> update
> 
> but it still tried to update vcdimager, vcdimager-libs libmad and 
> libmad-devel 

To me the syntax od the yum -x option is unclear. Is -x=package-name the
right form . I am not sure.

The syntax of the --exclude option is clearly specified in the man page.
I have always used --exclude and it worked.
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