Yes, you just need to add an 'exclude=' line to your yum.conf.
>From 'man yum.conf':
exclude
list of packages to exclude from updates or installs.
This
should be a space separated list. Filename globs *,?,., etc
are
allowed
-Jeff
On 6/29/04 12:55 PM, "Lawrence, Steve" <Steve.Lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Under RedHat AS 2.1 I have to use yum-1.0.3
>
> Yum --help gives :
>
> # yum --help
>
> Usage: yum [options] <update | upgrade | install | info | remove |
> list |
> clean | provides>
>
> Options:
> -c [config file] - specify the config file to use
> -e [error level] - set the error logging level
> -d [debug level] - set the debugging level
> -y answer yes to all questions
> -t be tolerant about errors in package commands
> -R [time in minutes] - set the max amount of time to randonly
> run in.
> -C run from cache only - do not update the cache
> -h, --help this screen
>
> No --exclude.
>
> Are there any options for a 7.3 / 2.1 user?
>
> Steve.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Garrick Staples
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 3:11 AM
> To: Yum
> Subject: Re: [Yum] How to exclude
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:04:14PM -0700, Dirk Ouellette alleged:
>> # yum update
>> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
>> Server: Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
>> Finding updated packages
>> Downloading needed headers
>> Resolving dependencies
>> ......Unable to satisfy dependencies
>> Package perl-Tk needs perl(Tk::LabRadio), this is not available.
>> Package perl-Tk needs perl(Tk::TextReindex), this is not available.
>> [root@localhost booda]# yum update exclude perl-Tk
>
> 'yum --help' shows the proper usage.
