Controlling YUM

[sunckell]

Hey guys,
Got a good one for the people who use YUM out there. Is there a way to tell yum to ignore a package for update?

For example.. I downloaded postfix-2.1.5-4.1.i386.src.rpm and rebuild the rpm with mysql support. How can I tell YUM to ignore that package when I issue a yum update? Not sure if that is even possible?


Thanks for the fyi...

Chad

[BandC]

If I remember correctly top of my head:

yum --exclude=<package name> update

You should also be able to put the exclude statement in your yum.conf so you don't have to type it everytime. I don't remember the syntax but should be a line like:

exclude=<package name>

[BandC]

By the way, try:

man yum

and look at the different options.

[ucfagls]

I posted a reply in another thread on how to do this by editting your yum.conf to set this globally so you don't have to keep typing the --exclude flag. Adding

exclude=postfix

to the [main] section of your /etc/yum.conf will do this, e.g.:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
exclude=postfix

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

[sunckell]

ucfagls,
That's what I was looking for.

didn't know:
man yum.conf
was even an option....

Thanks for the help.

[ucfagls]

You can't man yum.conf, you can man yum however