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  • 1.  DNF -- How to "lock" certain packages from being updated

    Posted Thu April 20, 2023 01:40 PM

    Team:

    As the AIX version of DNF doesn't appear to have an "--versionlock" option it seems that the "--excludepkgs" is the way to go [Question: Any particular reason why this option cannot be made available?]

    I also see that in dnf.conf there is a directive for "exclude=" however I'm not sure if this is valid for the AIX deployment of DNF.

    Any thoughts/advice on this please?

    Many thanks, Steve



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    Steve Munday
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  • 2.  RE: DNF -- How to "lock" certain packages from being updated

    Posted Thu April 20, 2023 03:00 PM
    versionlock is supposed to be in dnf-plugins-core... got that? I don't have a system in front of me right now to rightist if it installed automatically with dnf.

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    Stephen Ulmer

    Sent from a mobile device; please excuse auto-correct silliness.



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  • 3.  RE: DNF -- How to "lock" certain packages from being updated

    Posted Fri April 21, 2023 04:19 AM

    You'll need to install the version-lock module for dnf.  Same as with yum, version-lock is an extra module that you need to install, it's not there by default.



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    Phill Rowbottom
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  • 4.  RE: DNF -- How to "lock" certain packages from being updated

    Posted Fri April 21, 2023 05:22 AM

    Stephen/Phill,

    I checked dnf-plugins-core, no mention of version-lock.

    # dnf update dnf-plugins-core
Last metadata expiration check: 19:11:10 ago on Thu Apr 20 10:05:02 EDT 2023.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
# dnf info dnf-plugins-core
Last metadata expiration check: 19:11:25 ago on Thu Apr 20 10:05:02 EDT 2023.
Installed Packages
Name         : dnf-plugins-core
Version      : 4.0.16
Release      : 64_51
Architecture : ppc
Size         : 0.0
Source       : dnf-plugins-core-4.0.16-64_51.src.rpm
Repository   : @System
From repo    : AIX_Toolbox_73
Summary      : Core Plugins for DNF
URL          : https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf-plugins-core
License      : GPLv2+
Description  : Core Plugins for DNF. This package enhances DNF with builddep, config-manager,
             : copr, debug, debuginfo-install, download, needs-restarting, repoclosure,
             : repograph, repomanage, reposync, changelog and repodiff commands. Additionally
             : provides generate_completion_cache passive plugin.

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    Where else might it be hiding?

    Many thanks, Steve



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    Steve Munday
    AIX, IBM i, HMC, PowerVM
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  • 5.  RE: DNF -- How to "lock" certain packages from being updated

    Posted Fri April 21, 2023 05:24 AM

    The rpm name is python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock



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    Ayappan P
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  • 6.  RE: DNF -- How to "lock" certain packages from being updated

    Posted Fri April 21, 2023 05:47 AM

    Ayappan,

    Ah!  Thanks for sharing, now have it installed :-)

    # dnf | grep versionlock
versionlock               control package version locks


    Steve



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    Steve Munday
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  • 7.  RE: DNF -- How to "lock" certain packages from being updated

    Posted Fri April 21, 2023 05:23 AM
    Edited by Ayappan P Fri April 21, 2023 09:21 AM
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    Hi,
     
    I have tested this plugin some days ago and it's quite handy.

    Please have a look at the file attached, there is one example on how to install the plugin and hold httpd version.






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    Peter Furtado
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