How can I exclude selected packages when I rum dnf update command under FEDORA >= 22?
With the Command Line
Until a fix is available you can block the offending package from updating by adding an option to the command, replace packagename with the name of the package(s), specified by a name or a glob and separated by a comma
sudo dnf upgrade --exclude=packagename
In Configuration Files
It is also possible to add the exclude option to the configuration file. If you use a gui update application this is the best option. You will need root permission to edit this file so use su - or prefix the command with sudo. Add
exclude=packagename to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf.
Changes in DNF 2
excludepkgs
Exclude packages of this repository, specified by a name or a glob and separated by a comma, from all operations. Can be disabled using --disableexcludes command line switch.
Source -> conf_ref
How can I exclude selected packages when I rum yum update command under FEDORA <= 21?
Yum uses a configuration file at /etc/yum.conf. You need to place exclude directive to define list of packages to exclude from updates or installs. This should be a space separated list. Shell globs using wildcards * and ?) are allowed.
How do I exclude packaed1 and packed2 when I use "yum update"?
Open /etc/yum.conf file, enter:
nano /etc/yum.conf
Append the following line under [main] section, enter:
exclude=packed1* packed2*
At the end, it should look like as follows:
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3
# This is the default, if you make this bigger yum won't see if the metadata
# is newer on the remote and so you'll "gain" the bandwidth of not having to
# download the new metadata and "pay" for it by yum not having correct
# information.
# It is esp. important, to have correct metadata, for distributions like
# Fedora which don't keep old packages around. If you don't like this checking
# interupting your command line usage, it's much better to have something
# manually check the metadata once an hour (yum-updatesd will do this).
# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d
exclude=packed1* packed2*
Save and close the file. You can now use the yum command as usual but certain package will not install.
How Do I Disable Excludes?
You can use the following syntax:
yum --disableexcludes=all update
yum --disableexcludes=main install packed1
yum --disableexcludes=repoid install packed1 packed2
Where,
all : Disable all excludes
main : Disable excludes defined in [main] in yum.conf
repoid : Disable excludes defined for given repo id
yum --exclude Command Line Option
Finally, you can skip yum command updates on command line itself using following syntax:
yum --exclude=package\* update
yum --exclude=packed1\* update
yum --exclude=packed2\* update
yum -x 'packed1*' -x 'packed2*' update
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