[Philosophy] Rebuilding rpm packages with different configuration options

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 07:05:15PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >[1] If I rebuild and install a package, what keeps a later update from 
> >destroying my version?
> Nothing, unless you take precautions to prevent that from happening, 
> such as by adding "exclude=package" lines to /etc/yum.conf

Or even better, make your own small yum repo (it's really trivially easy --
look at the createrepo package) and use the protectbase plugin. Then, you'll
get updates from your repo, but other repos won't override them.


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