On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 08:27 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > where do I find 'installonlypkgs' I read the man page,it tells > me how it works but not where.I used 'locate and find' still nothing. man yum.conf installonlypkgs List of packages that should only ever be installed, never updated. Kernels in particular fall into this category. Defaults to kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enterprise, kernel- debug, kernel-unsupported. It's a parameter that goes in the yum.conf file. Look in /etc/yum.conf at how other options are done, and use it in a similar fashion. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.