cloud engineer
How to lock a package or software in RedHat.
# For RHEL 5 yum install yum-versionlock # For RHEL 6 and 7 yum install yum-plugin-versionlock # For RHEL 8 and 9 yum install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock |
# For RHEL 5 yum install yum-versionlock # For RHEL 6 and 7 yum install yum-plugin-versionlock # For RHEL 8 and 9 yum install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock
Locking a package
yum versionlock gcc-* |
yum versionlock gcc-*
List locked packages
yum versionlock list |
yum versionlock list
If you’re getting a “HTTP Error 404 – Not Found” error when trying to run yum update, it could be a corrupted cache. Clear the cache on the system by running the following.
yum clean all rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* |
yum clean all rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*
Run yum update again. The errors should be gone.
Here’s how to lockdown a package to a specific version.
Search for the current package.
$ sudo rpm -qa | grep sdk google-cloud-sdk-365.0.1-1.x86_64 |
$ sudo rpm -qa | grep sdk google-cloud-sdk-365.0.1-1.x86_64
Install versionlock.
yum install yum-plugin-versionlock |
yum install yum-plugin-versionlock
Lock a package.
yum versionlock google-cloud-sdk-365.0.1-1.x86_64 |
yum versionlock google-cloud-sdk-365.0.1-1.x86_64
Display all locked versions.
yum versionlock list |
yum versionlock list
Unlock and clear.
yum versionlock clear |
yum versionlock clear