Thanks .. It works ... :-) thirumal Ken Chilton wrote: > That is a simple one (to be confirmed by the observation that I can > answer it). > > In yum.conf, within the "[main]" section (I place this last) put: > exclude=/package-/* > > where "/package/" is the name of the package you wish to exclude from > update. For example, I exclude groff from updates via: > exclude=groff-* > > Now /yum update/ skips the groff updates (with a message to indicate > the existance of the global exclude). > > OK? Hope this helps! > > k.thirumal wrote: > >> Hi ! >> >> I would like to know how to ignore update on certain application >> while performing "yum update". Or is there any other command (besides >> "update") to perform such task. Please advise. Thank you ! >> >> regards >> thirumal >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Yum mailing list >> Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum >> >> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Yum mailing list >Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20050408/3d08f237/attachment.htm