NAME¶

dnf-versionlock - DNF versionlock Plugin

DESCRIPTION¶

versionlock is a plugin that takes a set of names and versions for packages and excludes all other versions of those packages. This allows you to protect packages from being updated by newer versions. Alternately, it accepts a specific package version to exclude from updates, e.g. for when it's necessary to skip a specific release of a package that has known issues.

The plugin provides a command versionlock which allows you to view and edit the list of locked packages easily.

The plugin will walk each line of the versionlock file, and parse out the name and version of the package. It will then exclude any package by that name that doesn't match one of the versions listed within the file. This is basically the same as using dnf --exclude for the package name itself (as you cannot exclude installed packages), but dnf will still see the versions you have installed/versionlocked as available so that dnf reinstall will still work, etc.

It can also work in the opposite way, like a fast exclude, by prefixing a '!' character to the version recorded in the lock list file. This specifically excludes a package that matches the version exactly.

Note the versionlock plugin does not apply any excludes in non-transactional operations like repoquery, list, info, etc.

SYNOPSIS¶

dnf versionlock [options] [add|exclude|list|delete|clear] [<package-name-spec>]

ARGUMENTS¶

SUBCOMMANDS¶

Locking a package to the version installed:


    $ dnf repoquery --installed bash


    bash-0:5.0.7-1.fc30.x86_64


    $ dnf repoquery bash


    bash-0:5.0.2-1.fc30.i686


    bash-0:5.0.2-1.fc30.x86_64


    bash-0:5.0.7-1.fc30.i686


    bash-0:5.0.7-1.fc30.x86_64


    $ dnf versionlock add bash


    Adding versionlock on: bash-0:5.0.7-1.fc30.*
Locking not installed package to any of available versions:


    $ dnf repoquery --installed mutt


    $ dnf repoquery mutt


    mutt-5:1.11.4-1.fc30.x86_64


    mutt-5:1.12.1-3.fc30.x86_64


    $ dnf versionlock add mutt


    Adding versionlock on: mutt-5:1.11.4-1.fc30.*


    Adding versionlock on: mutt-5:1.12.1-3.fc30.*

OPTIONS¶

All general DNF options are accepted, see Options in dnf(8) for details.

$ dnf versionlock add --raw 'bash-5.*'
Adding versionlock on: bash-5.*

CONFIGURATION¶

/etc/dnf/plugins/versionlock.conf

The minimal content of conf file should contain main sections with enabled and locklist parameters.

NOTES¶

A specified package does not have to exist within the available cache of repository data to be considered valid for locking or exclusion. This is by design, to accommodate use cases such as a presently disabled repository. However, a package must exist in the repository cache when the add or exclude subcommands are invoked for it.

AUTHOR¶

See AUTHORS in your Core DNF Plugins distribution

COPYRIGHT¶

2014, Red Hat, Licensed under GPLv2+