On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 16:08, R P Herrold wrote: > On 24 Feb 2003, seth vidal wrote: > > > > 2) If yum is doing the correct thing what incantation do I need in the > > > config file to get it to ignore the kernel rpms? > > > > exclude=kernel* will exclude the kernel but I'd like to hear more about > > what caused this problem. > > > What is that "*" doing there? > it's been updated for 0.9.4 (available from the website) it is a file globbing match so it takes *,? etc etc just like a file name match would. if you want to see the function that does this it is in clientStuff and it's called nameinExcludes() - line 122 in the docs for that version it explains this. I just checked this from the site - it is correct, I think. -sv
