On Wednesday 04 August 2010 14:09:08 Larry Linder wrote:

> 
> II.  Excluding openoffice.org-base.i386
> The script to exclude it does not work - there has to be something missing.
> yum --exclude=openoffice.org-ure*
> doesn't work.  I am missing something.
> 
> Manually edited the /etc/yum/yum.cron.excludes and added the line
> exclude=openoffice.org-ure.

Everything in this file needs to be on one line:-

exclude=kernel* openafs* *-kmdl-* kmod-* *firmware* yum-conf* openoffice* ooobasis*


The above was taken from a real system. The file is only honoured by the automatic
yum updates, i.e. if you do a "yum update" at the command line then it will apply
kernel updates, firmware updates, openoffice updates etc.

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Mark Whidby
Infrastructure Coordinator (Unix)
Physics/Chemistry/EAES/Mathematics Team
IT Services, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences