New versions of this package https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036377 bring my system down leaving me without GUI. How can I blacklist specific versions from installing? I don't want to freeze all updates for this package. Just want to make sure that certain versions are not causing troubles.
yum-plugin-versionlock does not do what the original question asked: it is desired to let updates come in, just not let one (broken) version update.
However, the tip to the yum faq/yum.conf man page is excellent. The 'exclude' option can be used to exclude a specific package name-version-release.
This is answered in the yum FAQ at http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq , Q4: "How can I get yum to keep package "foo" at a certain version in a fashion similar to pinning provided by apt?"
In short, the functionality is provided by the versionlock yum plugin:
yum install yum-plugin-versionlock
yum versionlock <package-name>
In your case
yum versionlock xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.21.15-4.fc20.x86_64
followed by a
yum distro-sync xorg-x11-drv-intel
should do the trick.
Asked: 2014-08-11 01:49:43 -0500
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Last updated: Aug 11 '14
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