On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 12:08 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
I did a little googling for this, but only found meaningless references, since pin has too, too common other meanings.
Is there a way to pin a version of a particular package with yum/rpm?
I have the rpms for the beta 2.0 version of OpenOffice installed, so I'm not interested in the updates for OpenOffice 1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4 which are now coming in. Is there a way to instruct yum to ignore this update but accept other updates?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but in spite of many years working with Linux I'm not an rpm/yum heavyweight.
I'm sure, however, others may appreciate the answer.
You can add a line near the top of /etc/yum.conf that says this:
exclude=openoffice*
It should stop trying to install openoffice stuff :)