On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:57:06AM -0500, A1tmblwd@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > If it is coincidence up2date, yum and apt are in dire need of > improvement because none of these applications can distinguish between > packages from an authoritative source and 3rd-party. Once the > repositories are enabled these applications will indicate that > ATrpms's package is an upgrade for Fedora's. That's what yum's protectbase is for. Recent versions of yum should attempt to protect your Fedora base packages from being overwritten by another repository. I used this without issues on a Tao Linux system - I haven't seen what's happening on my new FC3 system. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
