Does using the —downloadonly —downloaddir= option help test that? Paul > On Nov 4, 2014, at 5:08 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > m.roth@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, folks. >> >> Quiet on this list.... Here's a yum question. On some of my servers, in >> he yum.conf, I've got excludes set up. Now, when I do a full update, on >> the command line, I do a disableexcludes=all. The man page for yum says >> my only options are all, main, or repo. One of the excludes, which is >> on a few servers, I really don't ever want to update unless I do it >> manually. The other excludes are for things like video drivers, >> kernels, httpd... and those get updated after scheduling updates with >> the system owners. >> >> I'm currently working on a script that would assure that the updates I >> did earlier in the week, or the week before, are what would be updated >> on the production machines, and *NOT* anything newer, so that prod >> matches what's been tested in test. >> >> So, is there a way to override the excludes in yum.conf, *except* for >> the one package that I don't want updated? I really don't want to do >> rpm -qa | grep -v <package> > /tmp/current, then yum update $(cat >> /tmp/current). I *support* I could do yum -n update | grep -v <package> >>> /tmp/update, and feed that to yum... but if there's a cleaner, more >> elegant way to do it, I'd appreciate knowing it. >> > > Following myself up, I finally remembered what I was trying to ask: if I say > yum update disableexcludes=all exclude=<package> > will that work, and let me update everything including the packages that > are excluded in yum.conf, but *not* the one package excluded on the > command line? > > mark > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe <mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
