From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yuri Csapo Subject: Re: "persistent" RPMs Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:08:09 -0600 Message-ID: <4A4B97F9.3080403@mines.edu> References: <4A4A35F9.5050805@mines.edu> <4A4A451C.9080001@mines.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------080400070109080002070306" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: "Adam T. Bowen" , linux-admin This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080400070109080002070306 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Adam, thank you for this suggestion. It seems to do what I want and I'm going with it for now. Yuri Adam T. Bowen wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:02:20 -0600, Yuri Csapo wrote: >> On Ubuntu, you can tell apt to simply 'hold' a package and it will just > do >> that. Does anybody know >> of anything similar on RedHat? > > If you are using yum to update the system, then you can add an "exclude" > directive to your /etc/yum.conf. See the man page for yum.conf. > > Cheers > > Adam -- Yuri Csapo Academic Computing & Networking Colorado School of Mines CT-256 Phone: (303) 273-3503 Fax: (303) 273-3475 Email: ycsapo@mines.edu Please use the following link to open a service request: http://helpdesk.mines.edu =========================================== With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster --------------080400070109080002070306 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="ycsapo.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ycsapo.vcf" YmVnaW46dmNhcmQNCmZuOll1cmkgQ3NhcG8NCm46Q3NhcG87WXVyaQ0Kb3JnOkNvbG9yYWRv IFNjaG9vbCBvZiBNaW5lcztDQ0lUDQplbWFpbDtpbnRlcm5ldDp5Y3NhcG9AbWluZXMuZWR1 DQp0aXRsZTpTeXN0ZW0gQWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvcg0KdGVsO3dvcms6KDMwMykgMjczLTM1MDMN CngtbW96aWxsYS1odG1sOkZBTFNFDQp2ZXJzaW9uOjIuMQ0KZW5kOnZjYXJkDQoNCg== --------------080400070109080002070306--