[CentOS] Should I update to DRBD 82?

[William L. Maltby]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 13:47 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Joseph L. Casale
> <jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:
>         >So now - more of a "yum" question - what can I put in some
>         file to prevent yum from trying to upgrade drbd8 to drbd82 for
>         now?
>         
>         Edit your /etc/yum.conf and add the following:
>         exclude=drbd* kmod-drbd*
> 
> Thanks.
> I suppose that tells "yum" to avoid upgrading drbd at all. I can
> probably do:
> exclude=drbd82* kmod-drbd82*
> to avoide the drbd82 packages.
> 
> Can I tell yum to ignore "drbd" packages from the extras repository
> only, so it'll keep updating drbd 8.0 for security fixes?

Yes. Put the exclude lines in the .repo file for extras. See "man yum"
for the format.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --Amos
> <snip sig stuff>