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From: "Adam T. Bowen" <adamb@agitate.org.uk>
To: linux-admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "persistent" RPMs
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:18:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0dc6129ee110caa840e294bb38ad71eb@clientmail.connect.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A4A451C.9080001@mines.edu>

Hi,

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:02:20 -0600, Yuri Csapo <ycsapo@mines.edu> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-30 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-30 15:57 "persistent" RPMs Yuri Csapo
     [not found] ` <f33c6e0e0906300913g44236865yce5c4ba656deccf@mail.gmail.com>
2009-06-30 17:02   ` Yuri Csapo
2009-06-30 18:18     ` Adam T. Bowen [this message]
2009-06-30 19:11     ` Hauke Kreft
2009-07-01 17:09       ` Yuri Csapo
     [not found]     ` <dde9296f4ea39e9ce67e6e62d81eb337@clientmail.connect.org.uk>
2009-07-01 17:08       ` Yuri Csapo

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