On 11/20/2017 03:12 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On 11/20/2017 06:31:00 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 11/20/17 22:19, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>> Now that Mozilla has provided us with its latest and greatest (sic!)
> Firefox, I need to prevent updates to firefox. Dnf does not appear to
> provide a "don't update this" option. Any suggestions?
>
>
> Sure it does.
>
> Look at the man page for dnf.conf and check out the option
> "excludepkgs". It can be
> placed either in the dnf.conf or in a specific repo file.
>
Hmmmm ... let me guess. Feature added in the version included with Fedora 26? I'm
running 25, alas. But thanks, anyways.
It's actually just exclude= in the config file and has been around for a
while. See "man dnf.conf" for info.