Re: [CentOS] yum updates

Kai Schaetzl wrote:

Johnny Hughes wrote on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:00:27 -0600:

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--exclude=openoffice*

shouldn't that be --exclude=openoffice* ? At least that syntax is what I use in the repo files.

exclude=openoffice*

Both will work ... the \ means do not expand the wildcard as a command in the shell (do a google search for "shell expansion" if this does not make sense :D). In this case it does not really matter, but if it was something like this it might:

yum install kernel*

(if you had a file named kernel-badstuff.i386.rpm in your current directory and if you only wanted to install things from mirrors and not your current directory then you would need the )