Michael wrote: > Following Sven Knispel's instructions > (http://cri.ch/linux/docs/sk0017.html), today I recompiled freetype > with the bytecode interpreter turned on, only to be told by Puplet > that new freetype packages were available, packages which turned out > to be the very ones I'd just recompiled (freetype-2.2.1-16.fc6, > freetype-devel-2.2.1-16.fc6). > > Is there a way of flagging a particular version of a package such > that yum will prompt for an update only when a later iteration > eventually arrives? In addition to the methods Tony and DaveT pointed out, you can also do this with yum. It entails creating a repo for your package(s)[1] and then using one of the following yum plugins: yum-priorities - plugin to give priorities to packages from different repos yum-protectbase - Yum plugin to protect packages from certain repositories. yum-versionlock - Yum plugin to lock specified packages from being updated [1] To create a repo you can just copy one of the .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d and change the baseurl option to the location of your packages. You can use a file:// URI instead of http:// if you want (e.g. file:///home/user/rpmbuild/RPMS/$basearch). To create the metadata that yum needs, use the createrepo command. Following the above example, you could do createrepo ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/$basearch. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. -- Hans Reichenbach
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