yum pinning rpms

[crichey at gmail.com (Collins Richey)]

On 5/1/05, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 12:08 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:

> > Is there a way to pin a version of a particular package with yum/rpm?
> >
>
> You can add a line near the top of /etc/yum.conf that says this:
> 
> exclude=openoffice*
> 
> It should stop trying to install openoffice stuff :)
> 

Many thanks.

-- 
 Collins
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