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Joe Smith wrote:
> I like to keep both the official Fedora OpenOffice.org and the latest
> stable RPMs from www.openoffice.org installed. The problem is that
> recent Fedora updates have consistently _removed_ some of oo.org rpms, I
> assume because some of the package names are the same.
>
> Is there any way I might convince the Fedora updates to only remove the
> packages they actually update, and not every package on the system with
> the same name?
>
> I can't think of anything, as I assume yum is simply calling "rpm -U"
> and the removal of already installed packages is built-in to rpm. But
> I'm hoping you guys may have a bright idea.
>
> Alternately, is there any way to install the oo.org rpms with different
> names--a prefix or something? The versions are always different but
> apparently that's not enough.
>
> <Joe
>
Joe:
I'd recommend editing the /etc/yum.conf and / or the applicable .repo
file to add a line
exclude = openoffice.org\*
or conversely you could list the specific packages with:
exclude= { openoffice.org.writer openoffice.org.calc <etc> }
(note that spaces are required, oddly different from the comma separated
list required on the command line).
And then you can choose to upgrade from openoffice.org rather than from
fedora mirrors.
Scott
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