On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:06:54AM +1200, Clint Dilks wrote: > 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 you should be able to do: exclude=kernel* I've done that in the past, and at the moment mine contains exclude=OpenOffice* openoffice* ooobasis* since I've installed the one from OpenOffice.org -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 --------------------------------- -- 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
