Mandriva Online Applet [solved]

[aerogate]

Hi there, the mandriva Online applet checks periodically for any package updates, my question is, how can I exclude updates that I dont want?

 

Mike

[RVDowning]

Good question. I stopped updating my system after the last update I applied wiped me out, and also damaged the previous working version so that I couldn't even select the previous one from the grub menu. I had to restore from backups.

 

I find it more dangerous to apply updates than not to.

[viking777]

Just don't use it. Use MCC instead and then you can simply untick the updates that you don't want. (you won't be able to stop them from appearing again next time you check though, there might be a way to permanently block updates but I don't know it).

Edited April 3, 2008 by viking777

[aerogate]

thanks for the replies,

 

yes that`s my problem, there are now two updates that if I apply stop aac sound working in xine/kaffine, blocking them would be nice :)

[viking777]

Actually it appears there might be a way to do this. If you open /etc/urpmi you will find a file called 'skip.list' you can add packages in here to stop them being updated.

 

I have never tried it though. Let us know if it works.

[aerogate]

Yes that works, fantastic!