On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 07:05:15PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > >[1] If I rebuild and install a package, what keeps a later update from > >destroying my version? > Nothing, unless you take precautions to prevent that from happening, > such as by adding "exclude=package" lines to /etc/yum.conf Or even better, make your own small yum repo (it's really trivially easy -- look at the createrepo package) and use the protectbase plugin. Then, you'll get updates from your repo, but other repos won't override them. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
