Re: [CentOS] Managing updates to non-centos packages

Lucas Chan wrote:

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.

Saw your other update that should provide a better method. But the method I had in mind was that you would never do a "yum update" with rpmforge enabled. You would have been stuck with a manual "yum update package" for each RPM you had installed from rpmforge. So clearly not an ideal method and a manual process.

The ProtectBase approach is clearly better. Thanks for that link :)

Ref. http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/ProtectBase