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I want to do the command 'yum -y update' to update my 64bit FC5, but I dont want it to update my 32 bit firefox (with the update command it says its going to update it to the 64 bit version), and I dont want to update the kernel yet.
Is there an exclude command that can go with the 'yum update' to stop it updating firefox or the kernel but everything else can be done.
Maybe I should use yummex.
Look forward to any comments you have in regards to this.
Cheers
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Pssh! Whatever dude! Time is irrelevant. 10 years old or 10 minutes, he still answered a question I was googling for, and because of his post I found the answer.
Last edited by CarlMGregory; 10-29-2010 at 12:06 PM.
Reason: Explain why John VV is wrong.
^ and ^^ and ^^^
this information was precisely what i was searching for.
to add I found some issues with the exclusion and i always prefer the cli updates.
so, i did this.
yum --exclude=xorg* --skip-broken update
and that allowed me to update (about) 900 packages after a new install and prevent a brand new video card from getting a driver that was crashing X.
yum update was planning on 10+ xorg-X11 updates when the default one is working perfectly.
this is a time proven thread.
ASUS geforce GT 630(silent) 0dB, 2GB DDR3,
is actually an NVIDIA corp GK208 Board - 21320
and yums update was pushing unstable updates...
the above command allows all updates, while suppressing anything begining with xorg (in my case about 10 small files, the * is a wildcard ) and ignored all the dependencies associated with them.
thank you itsme_sujith, for taking the time to extend the (valuable) details, and the OP too.
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