Bug 250142

Summary:	How to create package skip list with yum client?
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Bob Bugzilla <bugzilla>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version:	5.5	CC:	casmith, cperry, msuchy
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Description Bob Bugzilla 2007-07-30 17:27:29 UTC

Description of problem:

Now that up2date has been replaced with yum as a the client tool for manageing 
updates, how does one create a package slip list?

With up2date it is handled with the --configure option and specifying a list 
like this: "pkgSkipList ['kernel*', 'httpd*', 'mysql*', 'php*']".  How to do 
the same with yum?

Comment 2 Calvin Smith 2008-01-03 19:29:13 UTC

You can add exclude= into the yum.conf file which can do a similar thing.

Comment 3 Bob Bugzilla 2008-01-03 20:00:51 UTC

And then how to override the skip list with yum? With up2date there was: 
up2date -fu

And, how to force download without install?  With up2deate there wass: up2date -
fud

Which could later be followed up with: up2date -fui

Useful functionality which was not replicated in yum?

Comment 4 Calvin Smith 2008-01-03 22:59:48 UTC

In order to force update, you can use. 

# echo -e "config exclude 0 \n update \n run" | yum -y shell 

Note that the former command will not ask for confirmation before installing. To
see what will be installed before running it, remove the -y option

To download without install, you have to install the yum-downloadonly plugin 

# yum install yum-downloadonly 

Which gives you the --downloadonly option, then 

# yum --downloadonly install myPackage 

which would down the myPackage package.

Finally if you want to see what's being skipped when doing a "yum update", use
the -d 3 option. e.g.

# yum -d 3 update

Hope that helps

Comment 5 Miroslav Suchý 2009-10-06 16:03:43 UTC

Bob, did Calvin answered your questions?
Additionaly, this is more yum problem, not related to yum-rhn-plugin directly. Changing component to yum.

Comment 6 James Antill 2009-10-06 16:26:08 UTC

yum --disablexcludes=all

I think it might be in the 5.2 version, but it's def. in the 5.3/5.4 versions.

Comment 7 Bob Bugzilla 2009-10-06 19:36:51 UTC

Miroslav, Calvin answered my questions.

However, the answers are more complicated than a simple command line flag as was available with up2date. So, this seems more like a kludge than a functionality equivalence.

I theorize a more elegant solution would be to write a series of bash scripts to wrap around the yum, to address the shortfalls when supporting RHEL/RHN.  Perhaps using a number of different yum.conf files, one for each functional area would also provide a more robust solution.  Just thinking out loud...

FYI - I view this as more of a RHN problem, as up2date is/was for supporting RHEL via RHN.

Thanks for all of the effort.