Success - finally

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 05:54:44 -0500,
  Bradley <pursley001 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Of course, now that I'm starting to customize my system in this way,  
> I've had to turn off having Yum do automatic updates as I will have to  
> screen them for packages that would actually damage my customized system.

There is a yum plugin that can be used to block specific packages from
updating. Take a look at yum-plugin-versionlock.