How to tell yum to exclude updating a package

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 15:49:48 UTC 2011


On 04/14/2011 03:53 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:06:53 -0700, J wrote:
>
>> On 04/13/2011 08:15 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>> Have you tried --skip-broken?
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>> Found out the syntax to insert into the .repo file is
>>
>> exclude=pkg1 pkg2 pkg3... etc
> Do you need libmad-devel for compiling software? Else remove it. It is not
> needed at run-time.
I need libmad, because several media apps need
/usr/lib/libmad.so.0.2.1
I just did not want the same lib from rpmfusion to
be used by yum as an update to the one from
atrpms.
Now I know how to exclude packages.



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