OK guys - yum is "too smart"

[jdow]

From: "Phil Schaffner" <P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org>

> On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 18:43 -0700, jdow wrote:
>> From: "Claude Jones" <claude_jones at levitjames.com>
>>
>> > On Friday 12 August 2005 6:00 pm, jdow wrote:
>> >> I am involved, to a slight degree, in testing spamassassin. So I 
>> >> cannot
>> >> update spamassassin via yum. It'll break my system badly. I have it
>> >> installed via other means.
>
> By "other means" do you mean as a tarball-build, or otherwise not an RPM
> package?
>
>> >>
>> >> So how do I exclude spamassassin from the update and force the update 
>> >> for
>> >> evolution which should be perfectly happy with the spamassassin I have
>> >> installed?
>> >>
>> >> {^_^}
>> > Did you try this?
>> > yum --exclude=spamassassin update
>> >>From "man yum" (if you want more details)  Exclude a specific package 
>> >>by
>> >>name
>> > or glob from updates on all repositories.
>>
>> Yeah, but then I also have to exclude evolution. There should be a way to
>> force things to be "my way". {^_-}
>
> Doesn't sound easy.  How about this?  Evolution requires spamassassin,
> but no particular version.  You could perhaps package your version of
> spamassassin as an RPM (assuming it is not already), giving it a higher
> version # (or perhaps epoch) than the FC version, and put it in a local
> yum repo.  That would make yum happy about your spamassassin but let it
> update evolution.  Here's my repo entry for such a setup:
>
> [prs at tabb1 ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo
> [local]
> name=Local YUM Repository
> baseurl=file:/usr/local/fedora/$releasever/local/$basearch/
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=0

At the moment I am using spamassassin with some enhancements from CPAN.
I expect soon to be using 3.10-rc<something> instead. (One of the SARE
rule ninjas uses the machine.) So I need the flexibility. I also noticed
that when I first brought Fedora 4 up the one feature that was terminally
crapped out was, tada, spamassassin. I already had a very well behaved
3.04 from the Mandrake I used for awhile. Unfortunately I had to force
feed SPF and DNS tests since what was present with Fedora Core 4 was
in one case absent and in the other case broken.

It looks like yum is indeed "too smart" and I will have to go back to
manually downloading evolution and installing it nodeps. I'd been hoping
to avoid that step.

{^_^}