Preventing rpm, apt, yum to upgrade a single package

[Jim Cornette]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 22:03 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
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>>Hi all, to workaround a know bug in the i810 driver in fc4, I am using
>>libvgahw.a from FC3. How do I prevent rpm (or both apt and yum) to upgrade
>>xorg or, even better, to overwrite that file?
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>try:
># chattr +i /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
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>That should stop the file being overwritten or deleted by anything.
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>Paul.
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Thanks Paul,
I was keeping backups of files that get overwritten by later rpms and 
replacing with the backup each time. I'll give this method a try, I have 
two computers effected by this bug. (blue border on 815 and blank 
terminal on an 865G)

Jim


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