Legend:

Unmodified

Added

Removed

Modified

Faq

v4

v5

23

23

* One is to exclude it from your updates list (see man yum.conf or http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/ManYumConf)

24

24

25

* Another way is to use the versionlock plugin to yum which performs a similar function.  See [https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2005-August/007194.html this post from Panu Matilainen] for more details. 

25

* Another way to pin package "foo" to a certain version is to use the versionlock plugin. 

26

27

If you are using the latest Fedora (12) then the plugin can be installed using:

28

{{{

29

yum install yum-plugin-versionlock

30

}}}

31

32

33

To add files that you want version locked, use the following yum command: