Re: "persistent" RPMs

[Yuri Csapo <ycsapo@mines.edu>]

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Hauke, thank you for the suggestion. I've decided to go with excludes in the conf file for now but I 
might end up using this plugin in the future depending on what happens.

Yuri

Hauke Kreft wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> 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?
> 
> there is a yum plugin for this purpose.
> 
> have a look:
> 
> Name       : yum-versionlock
> Arch       : noarch
> Version    : 1.1.16
> Release    : 13.el5
> Size       : 15 k
> Repo       : rhel-i386-client-5
> Summary    : Yum plugin to lock specified packages from being updated
> License    : GPLv2+
> Description: This plugin takes a set of name/versions for packages and
> excludes all other versions of those packages (including optionally
> following obsoletes). This allows you to protect packages from being
> updated by newer versions, for example.
> 
> Best,
> Hauke
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