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Is it possible to exclude all packages except one or two in a repo file?

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Is it possible to exclude all packages except one or two in a repo file? The man page for yum.conf didn't give me any hints. I tried unsuccessfully adding this line:

exclude=!firefox*,!xulrunner*

Is there a way to set up this repo so that when I run "yum upgrade" it will only check the firefox and xulrunner packages from the remi repo?

posted Sep 3, 2013 by Amit Parthsarthi

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Add 

includepkgs=firefox xulrunner

to the repo definition. This will _only_ allow those specific packages from remi and exclude everything else.

answer Sep 3, 2013 by Jagan Mishra
Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for.
commented Sep 3, 2013 by anonymous
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You can set 'enabled=0" for the repo, then after a "yum update" from the base repos, do a "yum --enablerepo=xxx install package..." (or update) for the specific packages you want from there.. This isn't quite as full-auto as specifying the packages in the repo file,but it will bring along dependencies that you might have to add piecemeal. Just be sure you look at the list of packages yum is proposing to change before confirming it.

answer Sep 3, 2013 by Mandeep Sehgal
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