How to version lock packages

Introduction

There are times that some packages available to be updated create a conflict on the system that can result in a package requiring to be locked while waiting for a solution to be available. The following information will provide information on how to lock a package to prevent updates to it. 

Procedure

You need to install yum-plugin-versionlock plugin. It takes a set of name/versions for packages and excludes all other versions of those packages.

To install yum-plugin-versionlock package, enter:

yum install yum-versionlock

You can add a new package to the lock by running the following command:

yum versionlock PACKAGENAME

You can view what packages are currently under a version lock with the following command: 

 yum versionlock list