Bug 249299

Summary: RFE: option to ignore global excludes
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ian Collier <imc>
Component: yumAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Ian Collier 2007-07-23 15:48:38 UTC 
If I want to avoid accidentally updating something at the wrong time (say, a
kernel module which needs a newer kernel) I may place a global exclusion in
/etc/yum.conf.  However, there doesn't now seem to be a way of deliberately
updating this thing without re-editing yum.conf.  "yum list" also won't even
tell me that a new version of it is available.

What I propose is one or more of the following:

* an option "--include=xxx" which can override previously specified excludes;
* an option "--noexclude" which just ignores all previously specified excludes;
* if I name the package exactly on the command line then don't exclude it,
despite what the global excludes say (perhaps this should only apply to "yum list").

For now I suppose "yum -c /dev/null" or "yum -c /etc/yum.conf.noexclude" would
work, but it's less convenient if you ever actually edit your yum configuration
since you then have to keep two files in step with each other.
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2007-09-13 18:47:38 UTC 
This isn't something that I really see as a common request.  If you really want
it, you could easily implement it as a plugin.  But it's not something that
we're going to do for the yum core.