Re: tips on keep certain packages while updating (i.e. nvidia drivers)

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Emmanuel Seyman <emmanuel(a)seyman.fr&gt; wrote: I'm testing now with: $ grep protected_packages /etc/yum.conf protected_packages=1 $ cat /etc/yum/protected.d/drivers-nvdia.conf kmod-nvidia kmod-nvidia-PAE xorg-x11-drv-nvidia but the current update doesn't broke the nvidia drivers so I'm not sure it's fine or not. reviewing the problem I see the problem is to keep synchronized the set kernel-vK kmod-nvidia-vK-vN xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-vN where vK is kernel version and vN nvidia drivers version and to respect the releases being running; while yum (documentation says) is able to check and not remove the current kernel, is it able to do the same with xorg-x11-drv-nvidia? I bet I'm not the one with this scenario :-m -- Ismael Olea http://olea.org/diario/