[Yum] newbie: configuring to exclude kernel updates?
Jeff Sheltren
sheltren at cs.ucsb.edu
Fri May 28 15:26:38 UTC 2004
Hi, I believe if you add the line:
exclude=kernel*
To your yum.conf, that should keep yum from updating any kernel packages...
-Jeff
On 5/28/04 8:24 AM, "jeb12 at duke.edu" <jeb12 at duke.edu> wrote:
> Howdy. I'm a bit of a newbie to linux/dulug. I'm running the Duke
> distrib with yum. I'm using nvidia graphics and when yum updates the kernel I
> have to rebuild the nvidia
> unified driver (this is a known issue with the nvidia driver: updating the
> kernel it's linked to breaks the driver).
>
> Is there a way to configure yum not to download packages that will modify
> the kernel? Would the "installonlypkgs" command be the way to go about
> this?
>
> Thanks for the help.
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