[CentOS] Re: [CentOS-announce] CentOS 4.5 is released for i386, x86_64, and ia64

[Larry Vaden]

On 5/18/07, chrism at imntv.com <chrism at imntv.com> wrote:
> Larry Vaden wrote:
> > On 5/17/07, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> >> The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS
> >> 4.5 for i386, x86_64 and ia64.
> >
> > What steps are required to make sure yum running in autopilot mode
> > doesn't destroy a locally compiled and configured postfix?
>
> Just curious....what was missing from the stock postfix that convinced
> you to compile your own from scratch?

The ability to stay current with Dr. Venema (one of the greats); by
doing so, we got to help debug milter support, which was FUN.

BTW, I've since found out that there are a number of yum utilties
which may prove helpful in managing such situations, such as:

yum-allowdowngrade
yum-changelog
yum-downloadonly
yum-fastestmirror
yum-fedorakmod
yum-kernel-module
yum-priorities
yum-protectbase
yum-skip-broken
yum-tsflags
yum-updateonboot
yum-versionlock

kind regards/ldv