Lars Hecking wrote:
Reason is I was wanting to do this so a next yum update does not get all confused...
That should not be a problem. yum update will see that your installed version (3.<mumble>) is greater than the version in the repository (2.<mumble>) and will then skip updating openoffice.
That is not what happens - at least if the official rpms from openoffice.org are involved.
They are not named the same thing and do not "provide" the same thing, so you will still get updates.