How to prevent grub2-* from updating

Rocky Linux General
1

I do multi-boot on my laptop using UEFI and rEFInd without any help from GRUB2, however when I update system packages (using GNOME Software) and grub2-* packages gets updated it messes my EFI configuration.

Is there any way to prevent grub2-* packages from updating? I tried to use dnf versionlock but it seems that GNOME Software ain’t respects such configuration, since it’s using packagekit under the hood.

2

PackageKit does not respect dnf versionlock
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2026184

3

have you tried using the exclude dnf option in dnf.conf?

4

Do you mean excludepkgs?

According to man 5 dnf.conf:

       excludepkgs
              list

              Exclude  packages  of  this repository, specified by a name or a
              glob and separated by a comma, from all operations.  Can be dis‐
              abled  using --disableexcludes command line switch.  Defaults to
              [].
5

according to man in my system that is deprecated

   --excludepkgs=<package-file-spec>
          Deprecated option. It was replaced by the --exclude option.

try
exclude=grub2*
or similar

6

In mine, too. But I was referring to man 5 dnf.conf (config file), but I suppose you’re talking about man dnf (the tool itself).

I have no problems excluding grub2 from updating (either with dnf versionlock or with dnf --exclude), my problem is that grub2 gets updated when updating packages with GNOME Software.