On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:26:57 +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina <mihamina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I just made a personnal package of MySQL 4.x with some specfile I found > somewhere I modified the compilation options too. > > I named my package mysql-4.0.20-1. > > Then I thought...: "what if the a MySQL >= 4.0.20 official package is > released? It will overwrite my package!" > (I update with yum only) > > What are the solutions? > > - listing mysql and mysql-server in the exclude= of yum.conf ? what > drawbacks? > > - naming the package with an exotic name ? will mysql-4.0.20-1mihamina > be enough to avoid automatic update ? what drawbacks? > I would recommend the first option, using the exclude= line in yum.conf. If you choose the other option, and some other package is dependent on or provides a dependency for your package, it may still update your existing install.
