Re: yum - prevent Redhat-Release update

On 6/3/08, Andrew Bacchi <bacchi@xxxxxxx> wrote:
read the yum.conf man page, it has an exclude list you can add to the
configuration file. Here's the quote from the man page.

exclude
List of packages to exclude from updates or installs. This
should be
a space separated list. Shell globs using wildcards (eg. * and
?)
are allowed.


dbcooper wrote:
Hello,

I was just wondering how do I stop "yum" from updating to the newest
redhat-release (I.E. Kernel) but continue to get all the newest packages?
I've looked at using the security plugin option, but I want to keep
getting
everything that gets released (not just security updates).

I know in the 4 and below days we had the option to exclude items in the
up2date configuration, can I simply add exclude or skip lists in the yum
configuration file?

Thanks,


Hi

wrt the kernel upgrades i found out his from another mailing list
belonging to a distribution which is uncannily similar to RedHat
:-)

i have an old dual processor box that boots from the previous kernel
after updates for some reason which i haven't researched


That's probably because your /etc/sysconfig/kernel contains:

# UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make
# new kernels the default
UPDATEDEFAULT=no

Make the obvious change of "no" to "yes" if you want newly updated
kernels to become the boot default.

this means that when an updated kernel is installed the default in
grub.con is changed to boot from the previous installed kernel

works a treat

hth

mike

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