[CentOS] Managing updates to non-centos packages

Wed Aug 16 06:57:37 UTC 2006
Lucas Chan <lucas at sitepoint.com>

>> Is there a way to tell yum to only pull updates from rpmforge for  
>> packages that were initially installed from rpmforge?
>
> Disable the rpmforge repos by default, then only enable it if you  
> want to update packages you have installed from there. You can then  
> enable it with the command line option to yum.

This doesn't quite solve the problem, I think.  Please stab me with a  
rusty spork if I'm wrong.  :)

Following your method, when I enable rpmforge and then do a "yum  
update" yum will still try to update packages that were originally  
installed from base/updates with newer ones that it's found in rpmforge.

Using the "syslinux" package as an example, it exists in the base/ 
updates repo.  A newer version of it also exists in the rpmforge  
repo.  When I do "yum update --enablerepo=rpmforge" it will try to  
update syslinux with the rpmforge version.  I suppose this is  
somewhat-expected behaviour, but it's not desirable (for me) because  
the syslinux package will no longer be considered 100% binary  
compatible.

Again, the goal is to be as close to 100% binary compatible with the  
upstream provider as possible.

I want some way of telling yum to only download updates from rpmforge  
for packages that were installed from rpmforge,  not packages that  
were installed from base/updates.

As I alluded to in my original post, this seems possible (but clumsy)  
by using the "includepkgs" directive to maintain a list of what  
packages rpmforge should be used for.  But, I was hoping there was a  
better way?

LC.