[CLUE-Tech] Yum: Fedora and RH 7.3 updat

[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 23:56, Adam Bultman wrote:
> 
> How many of you are using yum to update your Fedora and RH systems?

We are.  And so far, I'm very pleased with the yum.conf from:

  http://fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware


> If ANY of you have found a way to exclude packages in the update, please 
> let me know.  I am desperately working to find a way to not update 
> system-specific programs, but so far, the internet hasn't netted me 
> jack, and it's annoying both me, and to a lesser extent, my boss.

If I were your boss, I'd be more than just a little annoyed at you since
the "--exclude" option is prominently listed in the man page:

  yum --exclude 'kernel*' update

Ed

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