[mythtv-users] Updating mythtv with atrpms without updating kernel and kmdls

[Yeechang Lee]

Michael Rice <mikerice1969 at hotmail.com> says:
> What is the best way to do what I want without messing up dependencies?  
> Just do "yum update" and somehow remove the new kernel?  Or maybe something 
> like yum update --exclude=<kernel>?  What's the best known method for this?

There's nothing inherently wrong with only updating some RPMs with
yum, if you let yum handle the resulting dependency issues and don't
force anything.

What you are asking for is

  sudo yum update --exclude=kernel\*

In my case, since I always rebuild my MythTV packages myself from the
original SRPM plus various patches, I *don't* want yum to update said
packages. So I also use

  sudo yum update --exclude=\*myth\* --exclude=kernel\*

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