And you can use the 'exclude' variable in the /etc/yum.conf file, ie: exclude=kernel to exclude the kernel package. -Jeff On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 08:08, Garrick Staples wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:53:02AM -0800, Paul Lankow alleged: > > I left Red Hat after version 8 for Debian becauses I hated RPM hell. > > How happy I was to get introduced to YUM. Fedora is doing a good job > > for me. > > > > I use LPR instead of CUPS since it works better with my older > > printers. Any time I do an "upgrade", YUM wants to replace LPR with > > CUPS. Is there a config or command line argument to ask YUM to > > ignore CUPS? > > How often are you doing an "upgrade"? Perhaps you want to be doing an "update" > instead?