exclude packages from zypper updates?

Hi everyone,

I am familiar with the ability to use an exclude=kernel* argument in CentOS / RHEL to cause yum to exclude the defined list of packages from updates.

Is there a way to do this with zypp.conf? I don’t seem to have a man page for zypp.conf and I am having little luck googling this of finding anything on the forums.

Also, for some odd reason when I do a zypper update it shows many more packages available for update compared to only two which the update applet show?

Thanks,
Pete

Never done this really, but

Libzypp/Locksfile - openSUSE

Zypper/Usage/11.1 - openSUSE

LewsTherinTelemon wrote:

> Also, for some odd reason when I do a zypper update it shows many more
> packages available for update compared to only two which the update
> applet show?

They use different defaults.
zypper up
is equivalent of
zypper up - t package

while updater should show the same as
zypper up -t patch


Regards, Rajko