[CentOS] Managing updates to non-centos packages

Wed Aug 16 08:19:34 UTC 2006
Morten Torstensen <morten at mortent.org>

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


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