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 <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

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