At Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:11:49 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When I install some RPMS like openoffice 3 on centos x85_64
> is there some command that will leave all the actual files alone (leave
> them installed)
> but just remove the RPM name from the RPM database so centos now things
> the packages are not installed?
>
> Reason is I was wanting to do this so a next yum update does not get all
> confused...
That should not be a problem. yum update will see that your installed
version (3.<mumble>) is greater than the version in the repository
(2.<mumble>) and will then skip updating openoffice.
> and the yum update happens just like I never installed openoffice 3.
>
> is there a way to do that ?
>
> Jerry
>
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