On 11/20/2017 09:37:34 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
On 20/11/17 16:52, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)gmail.com
> <mailto:ed.greshko@gmail.com>> 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.
>
>
> I wish I had the skillset needed to write a plugin for this...
>
> I think he's looking for the same thing I am. I don't want dnf to
ignore
> that a new package exists, I just don't want it installed by
default.
>
> For example, I maintain a package for the Ubiquity Unifi controller.
> Most of the time the upgrade completes without a problem, but even
if it
> does, it can cause the latest firmware to be updated on all the
access
> points. That's something you want to schedule, not happen
automatically.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
How about
python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock-2.1.5-1.fc27.noarch.rpm ?
Looks like what I need. thanks.