From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yuri Csapo Subject: Re: "persistent" RPMs Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:09:18 -0600 Message-ID: <4A4B983E.1080909@mines.edu> References: <4A4A35F9.5050805@mines.edu> <4A4A451C.9080001@mines.edu> <20090630191126.GS6077@pwnagepeter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------070606010608030305090409" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090630191126.GS6077@pwnagepeter.net> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: linux-admin This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070606010608030305090409 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- 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 --------------070606010608030305090409 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== --------------070606010608030305090409--