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the upgrade itself is fine...no problems but I am confused about 1 thing. In order for yum to it's thing w/out updating the kernal, I put this: "exclude=kernel". I put this line in every division of /etc/yum.repos.d. i.e. Base, Updates, Addons, etc. my question is: I don't really know the proper way to exclude. thx John Rose

...behavior very easily, and can duplicate the reverse behavior as well, by manipulating the includepkgs= line. Here's an example run, from a RHEL 6.3 machine (same would apply to CentOS, just with a few differences in the yum output dealing with the RHN repos....): <MVNCH> Works fine. The includpkgs= line has to include all dependencies, as it really does do what the man page says it does. Try it without the includepkgs= line, or with it commented out, and see if you get different results. Thank you *so* much - this works. One oddity: originally, I'd had only includepkgs=kmod-nvidia, *n...