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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
