Well, there's a bug in the globbing for the tcsh with 5.4, and my boss has filed a bug report. Meanwhile, I downgraded tcsh on those systems whose users use that as their shell.
Until it's resolved, he wants me to pin the version. Googling, I see someone a few years ago, answering someone's question, suggested adding exclude=openoffice* near the top of /etc/yum.conf.
I also see, more recently, several additional yum-related rpms, such as yum-versionlock.
Will the first solution work (editing yum.conf), and, if so, for tcsh, would I need the asterisk, or would exclude=tcsh work?
Alternatively, is that deprecated, and if so, which additional yum-related package is recommended for this?
mark
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:33 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Well, there's a bug in the globbing for the tcsh with 5.4, and my boss has filed a bug report. Meanwhile, I downgraded tcsh on those systems whose users use that as their shell.
Until it's resolved, he wants me to pin the version. Googling, I see someone a few years ago, answering someone's question, suggested adding exclude=openoffice* near the top of /etc/yum.conf.
I also see, more recently, several additional yum-related rpms, such as yum-versionlock.
Will the first solution work (editing yum.conf), and, if so, for tcsh, would I need the asterisk, or would exclude=tcsh work?
This should work if you are only wanting to exclude one package. The open office example has the wildcard because it is multiple packages.
Haven't used yum-versionlock but it would need to be loaded on all machines to apply the lock. The other method although sometimes outputting more info when doing 'yum update' works as stated.
Larry,
Larry wroote:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:33 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Well, there's a bug in the globbing for the tcsh with 5.4, and my boss has filed a bug report. Meanwhile, I downgraded tcsh on those systems whose users use that as their shell.
Until it's resolved, he wants me to pin the version. Googling, I see someone a few years ago, answering someone's question, suggested adding exclude=openoffice* near the top of /etc/yum.conf.
I also see, more recently, several additional yum-related rpms, such as yum-versionlock.
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This should work if you are only wanting to exclude one package. The open office example has the wildcard because it is multiple packages.
<snip> That's what I needed to know, and yup, it's only the one package. Thanks!
mark
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