On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 01:45:59PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > but then Fred's machine shouldn't have tried to update openoffice? Yes it would, because he installed _different_ RPMs of the same name from a different source. As the OP wrote: >>>I recently removed (rpm -e) all the openoffice packages (2.0.4) from >>>Centos and replaced them with Sun's packages for openoffice 2.4. Works This is, essentially, the same sort of issue as dealing with multiple repositories; if you install package "X" from a different source then you need to tell yum to stop maintaining that package. -- rgds Stephen