On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, James Allsopp wrote: > I like yum, it's good program and seems to work better than up2date, but I > like the way I can say I want everything brought up to date, but easily > remove the kernel from this list. Is there a way of doing the same in yum > without having to install packages individually. > > Sorry if there's a really obvious answer to this, but I haven't found it yet. man yum.conf Read about the "exclude" option. I think you'd just want to say exclude=kernel* near the top of your /etc/yum.conf. Damian Menscher -- -=#| Physics Grad Student & SysAdmin @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign |#=- -=#| 488 LLP, 1110 W. Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 Ofc:(217)333-0038 |#=- -=#| 4602 Beckman, VMIL/MS, Imaging Technology Group:(217)244-3074 |#=- -=#| <menscher@xxxxxxxx> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Fax:(217)333-9819 |#=- -=#| The above opinions are not necessarily those of my employers. |#=-
