Re: Problem with exclude=... in yum.conf

On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 19:34 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I'm trying to suppress updates to libsmbclient, and have
> edited /etc/yum.conf as shown below.  It's not working, as is also shown
> below.  The relevant repositories are those for fedora-9 and for
> fedora-9-updates architecture x64_64.
> 
> Modifying the first exclude line to
>         exclude=libsmbclient*-3.2.0-2.17*
> doesn't seem to work.
> 
> $ more /etc/yum.conf
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> ...
> # Till the next version of samba-winbind comes out
> exclude=libsmbclient-3.2.0-2.17*
> exclude=samba-common-3.2.0-2.17*
> ...
> 
> $ yum check-update
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
> 
> libsmbclient.x86_64    3.2.0-2.17.fc9      updates
>     

it's not one per exclude=line. it's one line for the whole config -
space or comma separated:

exclude=libsmbclient-3.2.0-2.17* samba-common-3.2.0-2.17*

-sv