On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 15:57 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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. Dunno' $ man yum.conf /exclude exclude list of packages to exclude from updates or installs. This should be a space separated list. Filename globs *,?,., etc are allowed $ man yum /exclude --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 Phil