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From: "Adam T. Bowen" <adamb@agitate.org.uk>
Subject: Re: "persistent" RPMs
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:18:51 +0100
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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