On 6/3/08, Andrew Bacchi <bacchi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > read the yum.conf man page, it has an exclude list you can add to the > configuration file. Here's the quote from the man page. > > exclude > List of packages to exclude from updates or installs. This > should be > a space separated list. Shell globs using wildcards (eg. * and > ?) > are allowed. > > > dbcooper wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was just wondering how do I stop "yum" from updating to the newest > > redhat-release (I.E. Kernel) but continue to get all the newest packages? > > I've looked at using the security plugin option, but I want to keep > getting > > everything that gets released (not just security updates). > > > > I know in the 4 and below days we had the option to exclude items in the > > up2date configuration, can I simply add exclude or skip lists in the yum > > configuration file? > > > > Thanks, > > Hi wrt the kernel upgrades i found out his from another mailing list belonging to a distribution which is uncannily similar to RedHat :-) >i have an old dual processor box that boots from the previous kernel >after updates for some reason which i haven't researched >That's probably because your /etc/sysconfig/kernel contains: > # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make > # new kernels the default > UPDATEDEFAULT=no >Make the obvious change of "no" to "yes" if you want newly updated >kernels to become the boot default. this means that when an updated kernel is installed the default in grub.con is changed to boot from the previous installed kernel works a treat hth mike -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
