[Yum] Partial Updates

Thomas Moschny moschny at ipd.uni-karlsruhe.de
Mon Nov 24 10:26:06 UTC 2003


> However, I have one package for which I "like the old version". It's not
> important enough to me to follow up.
>
> So my yum.conf, in the [main] section, has the line:
>
> exclude=gthumb
>
> Now, the freshrpms (in this case) updates to gthumb get skipped.

Your solution is good, if you 'like the old version'.
But there is one additional drawback in using it for 'solving dependency 
problems': I have to remember forever that I once put a package in the 
exclude list, and remove it from this list from time to time or I won't ever 
notice the disappearance of the dependency problem and thus stick with the 
old version.

  Thomas




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