yum plugin to allow certain RPMs to only be upgraded, and not installed.
Addresses issue where you dont want any further new installs of a product, yet you want existing versions to get happily patched if required.
$ sudo createrepo --content=blacklist:^ImageMagick,^microsoft /var/www/html/repo
Spawning worker 0 with 25 pkgs
Workers Finished
Gathering worker results
Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata
Generating sqlite DBs
Sqlite DBs complete
$
$ yum repolist -v|grep ^Rep
Repo-id : steve-repo
Repo-name : Steve repo
Repo-revision: 1463431538
Repo-tags : blacklist:^ImageMagick,^microsoft
Repo-updated : Mon May 16 13:45:39 2016
Repo-pkgs : 23
Repo-size : 33 M
Repo-baseurl : http:https://192.168.0.20/repo
Repo-expire : 21,600 second(s) (last: Mon May 16 13:45:50 2016)
Repo-excluded: 2
$
$ sudo yum -q --showduplicates list ImageMagick*
Error: No matching Packages to list
$ sudo yum --disableplugin=install-blacklist -q --showduplicates list ImageMagick*
Available Packages
ImageMagick-last-doc.x86_64 6.9.3.10-1.el6.remi steve-repo
ImageMagick-last-doc.x86_64 6.9.4.1-1.el6.remi steve-repo
$
$ sudo yum -q install ImageMagick-last-doc-6.9.3.10
Error: Nothing to do
$ sudo yum --disableplugin=install-blacklist -q install ImageMagick-last-doc-6.9.3.10
===================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
===================================================================================================================================
Installing:
ImageMagick-last-doc x86_64 6.9.3.10-1.el6.remi steve-repo 4.7 M
Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package(s)
Is this ok [y/N]: y
$
$ sudo yum -q upgrade ImageMagick-last-doc
===================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
===================================================================================================================================
Updating:
ImageMagick-last-doc x86_64 6.9.4.1-1.el6.remi steve-repo 4.7 M
Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================================================
Upgrade 1 Package(s)
Is this ok [y/N]: y
$ rpm -q ImageMagick-last-doc
ImageMagick-last-doc-6.9.4.1-1.el6.remi.x86_64
$
- /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/install-blacklist.conf
[main]
enabled=1
- /usr/lib/yum-plugins/install-blacklist.py