Prevent a rpm from Being Updated via patching

A common scenario - unneeded packages got updated via patching and a working application Stopped functioning.

If you you don't want to update it even if a newer version is available YUM actually has a plugin called yum-versionlock.

1. Install the yum-plugin-versionlock package.

2. Make sure - /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.conf exists, and contains the following text: enabled = 1

3. Add the list of packages which you do not want to be updated to /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list.

Each package should go on its own line. For example:

screen-4.0.3-4.el5

desktop-backgrounds-basic-2.0-37

That's it!!


[root@svn01dev ~]# yum install screen
Loaded plugins: security, versionlock
Reading version lock configuration
Setting up Install Process
Nothing to do
[root@svn01dev ~]#

Cheers!
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