Once upon a time, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > People keep talking about being able to exclude the updating of certain > packages with an exclude option. I can't find any thing like this in > the man pages. What am I missing. Uh, not quite sure what you are missing, but "man yum" has: --exclude Takes a package name or wildcard for a package. You can list this option more than once on the command line to exclude more than one package name or wildcard -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.