Control yum update packages sequence

Question

Couldn't find an answer anywhere so I will try here. Is there a way to tell yum, while running yum update, to update a specific package as the last one? I am not talking about requires / dependencies, It just needs to be updated after all other packages on the system.

In a nutshell, I manage local repositories in my environment and this particular rpm holds the version for each repository, so by updating it as last I can label the client with that particular version.

Answer 1

You can run two yum commands. First one excluding the .rpm that you don't want to be updated and second, running your usual update.

$ yum --exclude="foo*.rpm" update

If foo*.rpm comes from a particular repository, then during the update, you can disable it using its name. Name of a repository can be found by looking into /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo file or using the command

$ yum repolist

Then disable the repo and update. Note, this will disable update of all packages coming from this repo.

$ yum --disablerepo="nameOfRepo" update

Finally, run your usual update

$ yum update