On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:33 AM, <m.roth at 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.