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