updating RedHat 5.1

Obi-Wan · 06-06-2010, 05:26 PM

Hi all,

Can any one tell me how I can update RedHat 5.1 without it getting upgraded to 5.5?

Thanks

knudfl · 06-06-2010, 05:39 PM

Welcome to LQ.

Assume , that you have a Redhat account.
And will use 'yum' for the package update :

Add a line to /etc/yum.conf : exclude=something*

Say you want to keep your old kernel, then :
exclude=kernel*
.

Obi-Wan · 06-06-2010, 05:51 PM

Thanks for the quick answer!

Do I need to give it the full name for the kernel? or just kernel*?

knudfl · 06-06-2010, 06:14 PM

The star ( * ) is a wildcard.

Any package starting with the word "kernel"
will not be updated.

Please do not write a specific version.
That will most probably go wrong.
kernel* is what it takes.
..

Another example : exclude=x*
will exclude all packages starting with x.
..

Obi-Wan · 06-06-2010, 06:16 PM

Thank you !