On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:06:54AM +1200, Clint Dilks wrote:
On 22/07/10 10:59, Jim Tate wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 06:30 PM, Jim Tate wrote:
>
>> On 07/21/2010 06:20 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Tate writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> FC13-i686
>>>>
>>>> I do not want to update the Fedora kernel, kernel-headers.
>>>> I put in yum.conf and yumex.conf , exclude=kernel and
>>>> exclude=kernel-headers but yumex still tries to update the kernel.
>>>> Why ?
>>>>
>>>> I do not have any kmods or kernel-devel installed
>>>>
>>> Only one "exclude" setting. As per yum.conf man page, multiple
>>> entries in a single exclude setting, space separated.
>>>
>>> Also, look closely. Do you have "kernel" or "kernel-PAE"
installed?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> kernel, only is installed.
>>
>> So I guess if I take out the exclude=kernel-headers, that should do
>> the trick.
>>
>> Thanks for the responds.
>>
> Well I took the exclude=kernel-headers out of yum.conf and yumex.conf
> and now yumex wants to update the kernel-headers and not the kernel.
>
> So if yumex shows a hundred updates I will have to check each individual
> package and not check kernel-headers, not being able to just click on
> 'Select All"
>
> If I did "Select All" then I couldn't uncheck kernel-headers because
> yumex would still try to update kernel-headers, once it has been
> checked, and you know what would happen then, the kernel is a dependency
> of kernel-headers and it would be updated.
>
> This is no win situation.
>
>
Hi
You exclude line can have multiple items just on one line seperated by
spaces
exclude=kernel kernel-headers myboguspackage
you should be able to do: exclude=kernel*
I've done that in the past, and at the moment mine contains
exclude=OpenOffice* openoffice* ooobasis*
since I've installed the one from
OpenOffice.org
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