Yes, if you have the exclude=kernel* in your yum.conf then it will ignore all packages matching that regex - even if you are explicitly listing that package on the command line. -Jeff On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 10:40, Mitch Marks wrote: > On 7.2 and 7.3 I'm not seeing anything downloaded when I explicitly run > > yum install kernel > > or > > yum update kernel > > Would these also be affected by the "exclude=kernel*" setting? > > Thanks, > > Mitch Marks