Tux Training

Prevent Yum Upgrades in Fedora / Red Hat for select packages

February 9, 2009, 9:50 am

Simple enough, add an exclude line to the end of your [main] section in /etc/yum.conf , and you are done. Your yum.conf should look something like this:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3
exclude=gdm pidgin

This will prevent upgrades of the gdm package as well as pidgin. The list of apps in the exclude should be space sepeated. Shell wildcards ( * ? ) can also be included.