On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 06:24 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 00:46 +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to setup yum to upgrade my system but not the kernel. > > I tried exclude=kernel* in the '/etc/yum.conf' file but obviously this doesn't > > work. > > > > (note : reason is I'm using some applications that need recompilation of their > > specific modules per kernel which start to be cumbersome as kernel is often > > upgraded) > > > > Bye, > > Bruno > > > > It is a question of how the * is interpreted. > yum --exclude="kernel*" upgrade > will stop any rpm starting with kernel from being upgraded. also you can equally use --exclude=kernel\* this method works equally well for install/update with yum on the commandline for example (yum update n\*) updates any packages starting with the letter n :)
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