On 11/20/2017 05:27:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 11/21/17 07:12, 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.
>>
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>>
> Hmmmm ... let me guess. Feature added in the version included with
Fedora 26? I'm running 25, alas. But thanks, anyways.
>
NOPE.... As Samuel said, it has been around since the inception of
dnf.
It is actually "version lock" that was a later addition that came into
being, I
think, in F25 or F26.
Ah. For the record, its -x or --exclude. However,that will, "exclude packages by name
or glob". I'll give it a try. Thanks.