> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of notconfusedaboutthattoday at gmail.com > Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2008 2:25 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] yum: not updating kernel > > Hi. I recently switched my CentOS kernel to 2.6.27, manually. Is there > a way to take it "off the list" of possible yum updates? I want to > handle kernel stuff myself. > Edit /etc/yum.conf Below excerpt from `man yum.conf' exclude List of packages to exclude from updates or installs. This should be a space separated list. Shell globs using wildcards (eg. * and ?) are allowed.