> 
> Hello...
> 
> On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 15:38 -0300, Stainforth, Matthew (SD/DS) wrote:
> > Is there any way to flag a package as "locked" so that it doesn't get
> > updated inadvertently?
> >
> 
> rpm -qi yum-plugin-versionlock
> Name        : yum-plugin-versionlock
> 
> URL         : http://yum.baseurl.org/download/yum-utils/
> 
> Summary     : Yum plugin to lock specified packages from being updated
> 
> Description :
> This plugin takes a set of name/versions for packages and excludes all
> other
> versions of those packages (including optionally following obsoletes).
> This
> allows you to protect packages from being updated by newer versions,
> for example.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> IIRC, %exclude in yum.conf would prevent the package from being
> installed.

Excellent, thanks for passing this along.  I'll do some testing with %exclude 
today and use the plugin instead if that doesn't do the trick.

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