On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 03:53:46AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > To me, this should be a feature of Yum and Apt. David Parsley (of TaoLinux > fame) has a patch for Yum that exactly allows to protect the base system > (core packages). You can say, this and this repository I consider the > core repository and it will never allow to replace a package from these by > one from another repository. Not only that, but there's a patch in Tao that also protects the vendor - in other words, DAG won't be allowed to replace a Tao package with it turned on. I requested that patch myself so that Dag couldn't replace a core package (rsynch was one such example). It works fine. Like everything else, choice is good. You can use the Dag repository or other repositories. Sometimes you can mix and match but not always. If there's a package from a repository that you really want and Dag doesn't have it, you could test a rebuild on your system and ask Dag to include it. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
