My Dell laptop hates the new kernel-2.6.17, so I remove it with yum remove kernel-2.6.... Then I go about my business and find that the yum cron job has run and re-downloaded and re-installed that kernel. Goddam. Then I can put exclude=kernel-2.6.17* in /etc/yum.conf, but the problem just starts there. When yum runs, it finds updates for kernel modules on atrpms (for ipw3945 wireless) and livna (video card), and yum then fails because it cannot install those modules because it cannot install the new kernel. So I have to go back into /etc/yum.conf and exclude some specific versions of those modules. What a hassle. Seems to me that if a person manually removes something in yum, the system should respect that. pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
