On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 05:32 +0100, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > Hi list! > > Please forgive me if I'm just blind, but I have looked and looked > without finding anything on the following subject, even though I think > it ought to be a rather common thing to do. > > What I'd like to do with Yum is to "override" specific packages with > local versions. For example, I've patched screen with some Kerberos > support, and would like to use it instead of the screen in my distro's > (Fedora) repo. > > If I'm not mistaken, just packaging it as an RPM and installing it > wouldn't cut it, since that would make Yum overwrite it again with > Fedora's version the next time Fedora decides to throw an upgrade at me, > right? > > So, does anyone have any tip on how to accomplish this? It is the second > most important reason why I'm currently using Gentoo on most of my > systems. > easiest way. For the package(s) you want to ignore changes from specific repos. in the .repo file for that repo add a exclude=mypackage for example: [extras] name=fedora extras baseurl=.... exclude=mypackage otherpackage foopackage that's really it -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
