update and package name

[David Hoffman]

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:26:57 +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
<mihamina at mail.rktmb.org> 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.